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Lemon and Coconut Bars

October 11, 2013 by Louise

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I just discovered (and bought) a beautiful vegetarian cook book called “The Cake the Buddha Ate”! I LOVE it! And not surprising it came out of KwaZulu Natal’s very own Buddhist Retreat Centre, which I have been lucky enough to visit many years ago with one of my special friends, Amanda. So this recipe has been adapted from their book – the original recipe has ginger in but I didn’t have any so I just did lemon and coconut which is an amazing combination if ya ask me!!

I love the recipe because of its simplicity and because these little bars are great sidekicks to a steaming cup of Five Roses tea…and you know how much I loooove tea 🙂


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Lemon and Coconut Bar Recipe

Lemon and Coconut Bars


  • Author: Louise
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 15 bars 1x
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Description

A perfect combination of flavours!


Ingredients

  • 60g butter
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 ½ cups cake flour
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 tablespoon lime zest
  • 1 egg
  • Icing
  • 1 ½ cups icing sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon warm water
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a rectangular baking dish with butter or Spray and Cook
  2. In a saucepan, melt the butter and honey together
  3. Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and then add the melted butter and honey into the dry ingredients and mix well.
  4. Add the egg and mix well again.
  5. Press the mixture into the baking dish and bake for approximately 25 minutes until lightly browned.
  6. Combine all the Icing ingredients together, except for the zest. If the mixture is too thick, just add a little extra water.
  7. Once the cake has cooled, spread the icing over the base and then sprinkle with the zest.
  8. Cut into squares and enjoy with a cuppa tea!

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  1. Chante Newhard

    June 1, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    Thanks Charliesmith for the share

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