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lots of desiccated coconut what to do?

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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,638 Forumite
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    jap200 wrote: »
    I'm trying to use up old store cupboard ingredients and have come across two bags of dessicated coconut. Both are out of date, but that doesn't bother me.

    Any suggestions? I have 3 preteen/teen boys who will eat almost anything!

    Fifteens?

    15 digestive biscuits (crushed)
    15 glace cherries (chopped)
    15 marshmallows (chopped)
    half a tin of condensed milk (approx 200-250g)
    dessicated coconut

    Mix the biscuits, cherries and marshmallow in a bowl with the condensed milk until it's a thick mix that you can shape with your hands.

    Roll it into a long sausage shape on greaseproof paper sprinkled with the coconut. Wrap in the paper and chill in the fridge for a couple of hours and then slice into roughly fifteen slices.

    I've added your thread to our existing one on using dessicated coconut that should give you more ideas.

    Pink
  • jap200
    jap200 Posts: 2,033 Forumite
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    Thanks for merging the threads. I had searched but now discover I was spelling desiccated wrong (dessicated) - no wonder I didn't find anything!
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