Old-Fashioned Coconut Ice

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 3 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
• 395 gram sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 drop pink food colouring

Instructions

1. 1Grease and line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
2. 2Mix the icing sugar, coconut, condensed milk and vanilla in a large bowl until it forms a stiff, sticky mixture.
3. 3Press half the mixture firmly into the tin in an even white layer.
4. 4Knead 3 drops of pink food colouring into the remaining mixture until evenly pink.
5. 5Press the pink layer evenly over the white layer.
6. 6Refrigerate for 3 hours until firm, then cut into 24 small squares.