lots of desiccated coconut what to do?

Queenie

Fingers X halloweenqueen - it's in the oven as I type

halloweenqueen_2

How did it go Queenie?

shetitasatic

These are lovely:

Chocolate Crunchies

4 oz SR flour
2 level dessertspns cocoa
4 oz marg
3 oz des coconut
2 oz sugar

Icing:
2 level dessertspns cocoa
4 oz sifted icing sugar

Bake - middle shelf - mod hot oven (gas mk 5/375F) for app 30 mins

Sift flour and cocoa into bowl, rub in fat, then stir in coconut and sugar.
mixture is now very dry and should be kneaded well with knuckles!

Spread mixture into a greased swiss roll tin - pressing it level with the back of a metal spoon - taking care to smooth mixture well into the corners and against the sides of tin.
Bake as above

Allow to cool slightly in tin then spread with choc glace icing:

Sift icing sugar and cocoa into bowl and add boiling water very slowly drop by drop (it's very easy to add too much!) until a spreading consistency - spread over crunch in tin then immediately cut into thin fingers with sharp knife
DO NOT REMOVE CRUNCHIES FROM TIN UNTIL QUITE COLD - they are delish!

The icing is very rich and great for fairy cakes etc. - very quick to make

Queenie

halloweenqueen wrote:

How did it go Queenie?

Straight down our tum-tums with a grin, grin, grin! :laugh:

Very scrummy! Naturally the lads couldn't wait so had their first taste of it hot but youngest thought it tasted like scrambled egg :wall: (note to self, add more vanilla). Plopped a blot of raspberry jam on his and he was very happy after that.

Served the rest chilled this morning at breakfast :drool: :drool:

Definately one for the family recipe book

halloweenqueen_2

Good! I first had it in a restaurant on the coast, i was expecting something cold and give it a bit of a funny look - Mr HQ looked hopeful = extra pudding for him. He didn't get a look in - or the pudding - lol!!!!!!!

krishna

thriftlady wrote:

Krishna,that sounds like a great recipe.I like Mennonite and Amish cooking too,but all the cookie recipes seem to have eggs in them which my dd can't eat.

I have found it quite easy to adapt recipes requiring eggs to make eggless ones. One easy way is to use soya flour or chickpea flour (called besan in Indian grocers). About 1-2 tablespoons of flour mixed with some water seems to do the trick. Works fine where the eggs don't form a major part of the recipe; i.e. fine for cookies, cakes, anything you would throw an egg or two into. Besan has a stronger flavour than soya but is more easily obtained and some people are allergic to soya too.

Wizwoo

Fay wrote:

hi Zziggi I have used this receipe for a coconut cake from Be-ro and it was yummy...made one sunday and one last night hehe I didn't use the lime as I just wanted a coconut cake and it worked fine. I even doubled the ingredients as I only had a 2Lb loaf tin and still worked fine just needed a little longer cooking


100 g (4 oz) Be-Ro Self Raising Flour
100 g (4 oz) soft tub margarine
100 g (4 oz) caster sugar
25 g (1 oz) desiccated coconut
1 lime, grated rind only
2 medium eggs
1 x 15 ml spoon (1 tbsp) milk
Topping:
2 x 15 ml spoon (2 tbsp) caster sugar
1 lime, juice only
coconut for sprinkling
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Oooo sounds yummy. I think I'll make one today! I love coconut.

thriftlady_2

krishna wrote:

I have found it quite easy to adapt recipes requiring eggs to make eggless ones. One easy way is to use soya flour or chickpea flour (called besan in Indian grocers). About 1-2 tablespoons of flour mixed with some water seems to do the trick. Works fine where the eggs don't form a major part of the recipe; i.e. fine for cookies, cakes, anything you would throw an egg or two into. Besan has a stronger flavour than soya but is more easily obtained and some people are allergic to soya too.

Thanks,Krishna,yes I do use soya flour for eggs,as you say it works well if the recipe only needs one egg.Any recipe with a large amount of eggs I just wouldn't bother making(not for dd anyway).I do like recipes though,where you don't have to find a substitute at all so I'll be trying this one. :T

Btw I've used gram flour before isn't that chickpea flour? Not heard it called besan -but you learn something new everyday,esp if you come on this board

krishna

thriftlady wrote:

Btw I've used gram flour before isn't that chickpea flour? Not heard it called besan -but you learn something new everyday,esp if you come on this board

You're right gram flour is the same thing and the packets usually do say that. Besan is another name for the same thing.

Angelraesunshine

Need a coconut recipe please but not coconut ice lol

i have about 3 1/2 bags of dessicated coconut but i dot want to do coconut ice as we always have that and a 2nd reason is that i did not get condensed milk when was at shops and i am not venturing out again until well after xmas.

so question is what else can i make with it??