You can boost the orange flavour of the icing by adding the zest of a second orange, or you could add some orange essence.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• 3 cups cornflakes, or crushed Weetbix
• 250g butter, melted
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
• zest of 1 orange
• 1 tsp butter
• juice of 1 orange

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°c. Grease or line a slice tin (33cm x 23cm)
2. Sift the flour and cocoa into a bowl. Stir in the brown sugar, coconut, cornflakes or Weetbix. Make a well in the centre.
3. Add the melted butter and vanilla essence together. Stir into the dry mixture until no dry cocoa or flour remain.
4. Press the mixture into the slice tin and bake for 25 minutes.
5. Put on a wire rack to cool.
6. Once the slice is cold, put the icing sugar, orange zest, and the 1 tsp of butter in a measuring jug. Add enough of the orange juice to combine them into the icing with the consistency you desire.
7. Spread the icing over the slice, try to keep it thin as seen in the photo – The icing doesn’t seem to set if it’s thicker than this.

This article was provided by Ben Knowles – Editor @ The Upper Hutt Connection

19/07/24