Raspberry Coconut slice

A little late for a valentines post, but these are what I made for my Hubby for valentines. They went down well with a cuppa and so I thought I'd share this very easy recipe with you lovely bloggers!

 

Recipe taken from marks and spencers ' biscuits and macaroons' recipe book.

Ingredients

Sponge:

90g Butter

110g Caster sugar

1 Egg

35g Self Raising flour

100g Plain flour

1 Tablespoon custard powder

220g Raspberry jam

Coconut Topping:

160g desiccated coconut

55g Caster Sugar

2 Eggs, beaten Lightly

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180c and grease and line a 20 x 30 cm retangular tin.

2. Beat the butter, sugar and egg in a bowl until it turns light and fluffy.

3. stir in the sifted flour and custard powder.

4. Spread the dough into the tin and then spread the jam on top ( make sure you stir the jam before spreading, as it needs to be runny to spread over the dough) .

5. place the topping ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined.

6. sprinkle over the jam ( they say sprinkle but it's too wet to sprinkle, so I placed it on top of the jam and spread it with a fork).

7. Place in the oven and bake for 40 mins.

Make sure you use the correct size tin as I used a 20 x 20 tin and it took longer to bake!!

I think you could use any jam you fancy.....maybe something like blueberry or apricot.

Enjoy your weekend.x