No-Bake Lemon Slice to Assuage the Desperate Sweet Tooth

February 28, 2010 · 9 comments

Coconut, lemon and condensed milk slice

If I were you, I’d start keeping the ingredients for this “recipe” (and I use those inverted commas advisedly) on hand in case of emergency.

Like the times when you just *must* have something sweet but it’s too cold/dark/rainy/you feel too lazy to venture out. Or when someone says they’ll be dropping by in half an hour and you don’t have anything to go with a cup of tea and certainly no time to bake anything. Or just because it’s awesome, you probably have the (6!) ingredients in the pantry and it takes 5 minutes to whizz together, 30 minutes in the freezer while you vegetate in front of the teevee/put on a swipe of lippie and another 3 to ice it. And it has condensed milk in it. Sold, right?

Do you have any emergency sweet recipes? If you do, I’ d love to hear them, I don’t think a girl can get enough.

Christabel’s Lemon Slice

I got this recipe from a sweet girl named Christabel who I knew in the dark days of living in Queenstown, who probably got it from Woman’s Weekly – but let’s pretend she got it from her Scottish grandmother Gertrude who was called Gertie by those who loved her, OK?

For the slice

250 gram packet of plain (not butter) biscuits eg: “Superwine”

35 grams (1/2 cup) of dessicated coconut (threads or the crumby sort would both work here)

200 grams (which is half a can of) sweetened condensed milk

125 grams (1 stick or 1/2 cup) melted butter

The zest of one (preferably unwaxed) lemon

For the icing

Juice from one lemon

225 grams (1 and 4/5 cup) icing sugar

Whizz the biscuits up in a food processor, lacking which, stick them in a sturdy bag and whack them with a rolling pin until small and crumby.

Put them (the crumbs!) in a bowl and add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

Press into a slice tin or whatever you have on hand as thick as you like (I used a round cake tin and pressed it about a centimeter thick).

Freeze until firm. If you have more time, you can get better results by refrigerating overnight.

Mix the juice of aforesaid lemon and icing sugar bit by bit until it looks like thick cream – you might not need all the juice – and ice the slice. It looks pretty if you put some extra zest on top, especially if it’s lime zest but it doesn’t much matter – it’ll be gone before too long, trust me, condensed milk *anything* is like that.

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