Cherry Ripe
One of my favourite Aussie lollies is the Cherry Ripe - a cherry and coconut fondant filling covered in chocolate. Many cafes have created slices with a nice biscuit base, topped with cherries, coconut and chocolate.
Here's a recipe for a Cherry Ripe slice.
Ingredients
1 cup of self raising flour
1 tablespoon of cocoa
1/3 cup sugar
100g butter or margarine
100g crushed 'Marie' biscuits
For the filling:
1½ cups of desiccated coconut
1 tin of condensed milk
1 packet of chopped glace cherries
150g cooking chocolate
30g marg
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20 x 30cm lamington tin.
Melt the butter and combine the sugar, sifted flour and cocoa, and crushed biscuits.
Spread into a lamington tin and bake for 20 minutes.
For the filling: mix together the coconut, condensed milk and chopped glace cherries, and spread evenly onto the base. Cook for a further 15 minutes.
Melt the cooking chocolate and marg together and spread over the cooled slice.
Cut into squares when the chocolate is set.
This recipe was taken from the Australian Women's Weekly web site. The magazine is a bit of an Aussie institution producing hundreds of baking and cookery books. Here's a link to the web site -
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/food/
And so after a great couple of weeks with my family in Australia indulging on many festive Aussie treats, we leave the Antipodes and head for a new continent, first stop South Africa
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