Slices

you can all blame Helen for this, she made it especially and sent it to me.




Caramel walnut slice
from Helen

Base:
half cup s.r. flour
(gluten free works the same as normal flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup coconut
60gm butter

topping:
2 eggs
half tsp vanilla
1 cup coconut
90 gm walnut pieces
one and a half cups brown sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder ( wards)

sift flour into bowl, add sugar and coconut, mix well. Melt butter and add to dry ingredients, mix well. Press mixture into greased tray ( or use the magic baking paper) / bake in moferate oven for 15 mins.

topping: Lightly beat eggs and vanilla with a fork. add coconut, chopped walnuts, brown sugar, baking powder and mix well. Spread mixture over partly cooked base, return to moderate oven and bake a further 25 minutes or until topping is cooked. Cool in tin before cutting.




spotty slice
to make with leftover biscuits that aren't getting eaten.
or open a packet of those arnotts rice cookies

90 grams melted butter
100 gms or 1 cup biscuit crumbs
185 gms of chocholate bits or chopped up chocolate
1 cup coconut
400 gm sweetened condensed milk

line a deep tray with baking paper
melt the butter and then add everything else to it.
bake for 30 mine at 180 and then cut when cool.





Lemon and coconut slice

1 cup of gluten free flour
1 cup coconut
three quarters cup castor sugar
2 eggs lightly beaten
110 gms of melted butter

preheat oven to 180 c
put baking paper in the tray
mix all ingredients in a bowl and squash flat into the slice tin.
bake for 25 mins till browned
cool for ten minutes

ice it with lemon icing.
You also need icing sugar ( not icing mixture) and a lemon and a dob of butter.
put the dob of butter in the microwave to melt. then add some icing sugar, then squeeze half a lemon on top, then add more icing sugar to make an icing consistency. ( if its not enough add more lemon juice or 1 tsp hot water and more icing sugar.
spread onto the top of the slice.

sprinkle more coconut on top if you like ( but sometimes this puts the children off eating it)

serve with a cup of tea


Chocolate slice. - Absolutely wicked wisemen slice

125 gms butter or half a cup ( who would try and squash butter into a cup to measure it?)
100 gms or half a cup of sugar
1 tbspoon cocoa
1 tblsp golden syrup
200 gm or 1 cup of plain gluten free flour
40 g or half a cup of coconut
one teaspoon of wards baking powder ( did you know that other brands put flour in theirs to fatten it up?)

chocolate icing

Preheat your oven to 180 c.
place butter, sugar, cocoa and golden syrup in a saucepan or in a bowl in the microwave.
Melt it all, stirring as you go but do not boil it like I did. ( don't worry even if you do this it will still work)
After a successful melting remove the treasure from the source of heat and add the flour, the coconut and the baking powder. Press it into the slice tin ( here's your challenge for the day - I usually do it with my fingers, but it is hot and may burn the pinkies)
Bake for ten minutes.
When cool, ice with chocolate icing.

A real winner if you are trying to make something fort the kid's lunches at 7.30 in the morning.