Desserts & Baking

Coconut-and-jam shortbread

8
Easy
15 minutes
40 minutes

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Ingredients

Method
  • 200 g desiccated coconut
  • 2 free-range egg whites, beaten
  • 300 g strawberry or apricot jam
  • For the shortbread base:

  • 225 g butter
  • 100 g sugar
  • 240 g flour

Method

Ingredients

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Mix the coconut and egg white and set aside.

2. To make the base, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Slowly beat in the flour.

3. Press the base into a greased 20 x 20 cm pan. Prick all over with a fork and bake for 25 minutes.

4. Spoon over the jam and coconut mixture, then bake for a further 15 minutes. Cool and slice into squares.

Cook's note: Replace the coconut topping with 100 g flaked almonds if you like.

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Photographs: Toby Murphy
Food assistant: Emma Nkunzana

Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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