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Coconut Brownies




Source of Recipe


cookitsimply


List of Ingredients




3 oz (75 g) 6 tbsp butter, cut into small pieces
2 oz (50 g) plain chocolate
1/2 cup (125 g) 4 oz caster sugar (superfine granulated)
1/4 cup (50 g) 2 oz soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup (100 g) 4 oz self raising (self rising) flour
4 oz (100 g) desiccated coconut
2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) vanilla flavouring
apricot jam to decorate




Recipe



1. Place the butter in a medium basin. Add broken up chocolate and stand the basin in a pan of simmering water until the butter and chocolate melt. Remove from the heat.

2. Add the sugars, eggs, flour, 25 g (1 oz) desiccated coconut and vanilla flavouring and beat until smooth.

3. Spoon the mixture into a buttered and base-lined 28 x 18 x 3 cm (11 X 7 x 1 1/4 inch) oblong cake tin.

4. Bake in the oven at 180°C (350°F) mark 4 for about 35 minutes, until firm; cool in tin.

5. Cut into fingers, ease out of tin.

6. Brush brownies in diagonal strips with warm apricot jam, press reserved coconut on to the jam.