Easy coconut ice recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 cups icing sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 25g butter or margarine
• ½ tsp salt
• 3/4 cup desiccated coconut
• Pink food colouring

Method:

1. In a saucepan, combine icing sugar, milk, butter and salt.
2. Heat on medium heat until it boils, and takes on candy-like quality.
3. To test whether its reached ‘candy-like quality’, wait until the mixture is bubbling, take a teaspoonful and drop it into a bowl of cold water.
4. If the mixture balls up when cool, it’s the right consistency.
5. Add your coconut to the saucepan and give a quick stir to combine.
6. Take off the heat and divide into two bowls. Allow to cool for 5 minutes; it should start to firm.
7. Mix one portion, either with a hand-mixer or stand mixture to ensure all ingredients are well combined and don't separate.
8. Press into a small greased tray (a small loaf tin works well) and put aside.
9. Put the other portion in your mixing bowl and add a few drops of food colouring, mix as the first portion and then press on top of the first portion.
10. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
11. Cut into desired portions and store in airtight container in the fridge.