Chocolate Crunchies!!

Here are all the ingredients for this delicious crunchie recipe

Wash your hands before your start

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C

Put 125ml brown sugar into a pot

Add 165ml butter, and heat over a low heat

(Next time I would rather melt the butter first, then add the sugar, because the sugar stuck a bit on the bottom of the pot)

Put 250ml of cake flour into a measuring jug

And also put 250ml of oats into the jug

Then put 250ml dessicated coconut into the jug

Add 3ml of baking powder into the jug

Don't you love how it makes so many layers?

Finally, add 15ml of cocoa powder

Pour the dry mixture into a larger bowl and mix

Get the warm butter mixture from the stove, and scoop it into the dry mixture (now wet!)

Stir

Until it looks like this ...

Flatten it down into a greased baking tin

See why we have to wash our hands!

Then put it into the pre-heated oven

Then time it for 20 minutes

And I like to clean up (also you should clean up your mess that you made)

I like to throw the cloth and try to get it into the sink!


I made it!!!!Take the crunchies out when the 20 minutes is finished

I cut it into squares while it was still warm - but it would be better to do the icing first, and then cut into the squares. I'll do that next time.

The icing is SO easy. You just put 250ml icing sugar in a bowl ....

... then add 15ml cocoa powder

... and 5ml vanilla extract/essence

and 30ml hot water

Mix together very well

... and pour over the warm crunchies. The icing soaks into the crunchies a bit which is very yummy. This is when you should cut them into squares, then you won't have the icing running in between the crunchies like I did. (but it was nice to clean the pan afterwards!)

I gave some to my tennis teacher today, and my friends who play tennis with me. I also gave some to my pottery teacher, and the others doing pottery with me, and everyone thought they were delicious. Now you can try them!!

We made some more the next day, and this time did the icing before cutting. It was much better - have a look ...