No-bake lemon coconut slice

 Intro

A Kiwi classic straight out of the Australian Women's Weekly Beautiful Biscuits book.

Ingredients

Base

• 1 tin of condensed milk (1 cup)
• 250g of butter
• 2 packets of wine biscuits (500g plain sweet biscuits) 
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
• 2 cups of desicated coconut

Icing

• 2 cups of icing sugar
• 3 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 30g of butter
• 1/4 cup of coconut

Method

Crush the biscuits very finely.

Melt the butter and condensed milk together.

Mix the ingredients together and then press into a greased or lined swiss roll tin. Place in the fridge while you make the icing.

Melt the butter and mix all the ingredients together. Pur over the base and sprinkle with coconut. Keep in the fridge. 

Chocolate Trufffles

Intro

Divinely disgustingly rich and rummy - another one of Fran's recipes. 

Recipe

Soak together for 10 minutes:

• 2 tablespoons chopped raisins
• 2 tablespoons rum

Melt:

• 150g good chocolate (darkish but not bitter)

Mix in:

• 1 lightly beaten egg yolk
• 25g soft butter
• a half cup icing sugar
• the soaked raisins (from above)

Rest in the fridge for 30 minutes then roll into small balls. Set in fridge for a bit, then dip in chocolate and and roll in coconut:

• 150g melted chocolate
• 1 cup coconut.

Ginger Fudge Slice

Intro
This recipe is really delicious just plain as is, but for a special occasion flash it up with melted dark chocolate:

• dip each square diagonally in melted chocolate,
• splatter chocolate on top,
• line tin with tin foil and spread a thin layer of chocolate on the bottom, then add biscuit mixture, when set add chocolate on top as well.

Recipe

• 4 ozs butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons condensed milk
• 1 packet wine biscuits (plain sweet)
• 1 cup walnuts
• 1 cup crystalized ginger

Melt butter in saucepan, add sugar and condensed milk. Cook gently, stirring all the time, until sugar is dissolved.

In a kitchen whizz or food processor grind biscuits into fine crumbs, and the walnuts, and the crystallized ginger. Mix butter mixture into crumb mixture. Press into a tinfoil lined tin and refrigerate. Cut into small squares once set. Store in refrigerator.

Chocolate Fudge Slice

Intro
When I was at primary school my best friend was Denise; actually she is still is one of my very best friends now. You know the kind: you can ignore each other for months and months and months then when you do get together you just pick up where you left off.

It was the late sixties when 'good' mummies were home by after-school 3pm, cooked yummy nutritious meals every night and had full cake tins. My Mum's baking included sultana cake, chocolate cake, coconut cake, ginger crunch, peppermint slice, coconut macaroons and a cruncy biscuit made with Greg's instant pudding; it came in all sorts of different flavours and the biscuits were different every time. I remember three things that Denise's Mum, Verna, made: yo-yos, coconut ice slice and chocolate fudge. My kids love this now and its easy to make. Sometimes I jazz it up with a few raisins or walnuts but its perfectly nice as it is.

Recipe

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tblsp cocoa
• vanilla essence
• 1 pkt plain sweet biscuits (eg super wine)
• 6 ozs butter - melted

Break the biscuits into pieces - not too small is best. Place in a bowl with all the other ingredients and combine.

Press into a greased or tinfoil lined biscuit tin / tray. Ice with chocolate icing and store in fridge until set. Cut into small squares once set.