Apricot Coconut Slice

I have lost track of how many times I have made this Apricot slice by Annabel Langbein, it is such a winner, definitely on the top 5 baking requests from my family it can be doubled easily and frozen uniced.

Ingredients

• • 100g butter
  • 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 375g plain sweet biscuits, crushed to fine crumbs
  • 150g dried apricots, finely chopped
  • 1 cup desiccated coconut
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

  Icing

  • 5og butter
  • 3 tbsp boiling water
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 3 1/2 cups icing sugar

Method

1. Melt butter and condensed milk, bring to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
2. Add crushed biscuits, apricots, coconut and lemon juice and mix well.
3. Press into a 30cm x 24cm baking tin. Refrigerate until set then ice.
4. For the icing, melt butter and mix with boiling water, lemon and icing sugar to a smooth consistency.
5. Spread over base. Once cool, cut into pieces and store in a cool dry place in an airtight container.