madebyjade

500g icing sugar
1 tin (385g) condensed milk
390g desiccated coconut
5ml peppermint essence and 3 drops green food colouring
or
5ml vanilla essence and 3 drops pink food colouring

 Place the icing sugar, the condensed milk (taste it first, just for the fun of it!) and coconut in a bowl and mix well.  At first it may seem a bit dry, but work those arms and mix and mix so that when you take a bit of the mixture between your fingers and squeeze it, it holds.  Divide the mixture and place one half into a tin of about grease paper-lined 20×20x5cm and press it down evenly in a layer of white.  Mix the chosen essence and food colouring with the remaining ingredients, I out in some medical gloves (whack, I know, but I felt I’ll leave the green/pink stained hands for another operation, because food colouring is quite hard to wash of) and used my hands, working it through with my fingers.  Press the coloured mixture onto the white layer, place it in the fridge for 1 hour until it is firm.  Now turn it out of the tin (the grease paper makes this loads easier) and cut it in squares, I got about 25 out of this batch, but it really depends on how big you want to go.  It would make even the sweetest tooth go on a sugar high after just one square.