Name: Coconut ice Christmas trees
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 1/3 cups pure icing sugar, sifted (see Cook’s Tip); 1/4 tsp cream of tartar; 395g can sweetened condensed milk; 3 1/2 cups desiccated coconut; 2 tsp vanilla essence; Few drops pink food colouring; 8 large waffle ice-cream cones; 50g white chocolate melts, melted; Gold and white cachous, edible gold stars, to decorate

Coconut ice Christmas trees

Create a shimmer of sweetness with this cool yule take on a favourite treat.

Serves 8

Prep

15M

Marinate

30M

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Make your Christmas desserts an absolute showstopper this year with these gorgeous mini coconut Christmas trees. They’re easy to make and would look so cute as a present.

Ingredients

2 1/3 cups pure icing sugar, sifted (see Cook’s Tip)

1/4 tsp cream of tartar

395g can sweetened condensed milk

3 1/2 cups desiccated coconut

2 tsp vanilla essence

Few drops pink food colouring

8 large waffle ice-cream cones

50g white chocolate melts, melted

Gold and white cachous, edible gold stars, to decorate

Method

Step 1

Sift icing sugar and cream of tartar into a large bowl. Add sweetened condensed milk, coconut and vanilla. Mix to combine. Divide mixture in half. Tint one half with pink food colouring.

Step 2

Wearing plastic gloves, crumble pink mixture over white, then use your hands to gently combine so it’s speckled pink and white. (The mixture is sticky.)

Step 3

Using one ice-cream cone at a time, sprinkle a little mixture into the cone and use the back of a spoon to push it into the cone’s tip. Fill the rest of the cone with the mixture and press to compact. Arrange filled cones on a tray and refrigerate for 30 minutes, until coconut ice has just set and the cone breaks away from the coconut ice.

Step 4

Break cones away from coconut ice. Arrange coconut ice trees on a lined oven tray, remoulding any tree tips if needed. Chill for 30 minutes, until set.

Step 5

Transfer melted chocolate to a piping bag fitted with a piping nozzle, or a plastic bag with a small corner snipped off. Working quickly, one tree at a time, pipe on chocolate to form tinsel. Before the chocolate sets, hold the tree over a bowl and sprinkle with cachous. Some will stick to the chocolate and the rest will land in the bowl for you to reuse. Alternatively, place cachous on trees in a pattern. Use a little extra chocolate to stick stars to tops of trees.