Awesome Coconut Ice recipe used for wedding favours

I used this Coconut Ice recipe for my sisters wedding favours or Bombonieres.  It worked like a treat and everyone loved it!

Ingredients

2 cups of icing sugar

395g can of condensed milk

2 1/2 cups of coconut

1/2 tsp of vanilla

1/4 cup of glazed cherries

Pink colouring

Dark Chocolate

Decorated Coconut Ice

Method

• Combine sifted icing sugar, condensed milk, coconut and vanilla till evenly mixed.

• Chop cherries finely

• Grease a shallow 20cm square cake tin then line base and sides with baking paper.

Homemade Bombonieres

• Divide mixture in half and then press the white half into the pan until evenly spread.

• Mix a 2-3 drops of pink colouring to the rest of batch along with the chopped cherries and mix till colour is distributed evenly.

• Press pink layer into pan on top of white layer and then refrigerate for 2-3 hours till hardened.

• Once hardened remove from pan and cut into desired size.  For our Bombonieres we had a clear plastic, heart shaped box that we put the coconut ice in so I used one rectangular piece and one square piece.  See the pic below.

• Decorate the coconut ice with dark melted chocolate.  I just used a zip lock bag with a 2mm hole in the corner to draw my squiggles.

I times-ed this Coconut Ice recipe by four to make enough for 70 people at the wedding.  Definitely a fun, quick, inexpensive way to make a homemade piece of goodness!  Make some… I dare you!