Strawberry coconut ice

For a recent afternoon tea that I hosted, one of the nibbles that I made was strawberry coconut ice.  The inspiration for this was that the afternoon tea was originally going to be pink themed.  In the end, I found that too hard, but I kept some of the ideas from the pink theme for the actual menu.

The recipe for the strawberry coconut ice came from a Coles supermarket magazine (September 2014?).  It is an easy recipe using condensed milk rather than the scary boiled one, so anyone can make it.  The recipe is as follows:

 2 cups icing sugar
4 cups dessicated coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
395g can of condensed milk
60g strawberries, hulled and quartered
red food colouring

Grease and line a 21cm square pan with baking paper, allowing the paper to overhang the sides.

 Put 1 cup of icing sugar and 2 cups of coconut on a large bowl.  Stir in the vanilla and two third of the condensed milk.  Press the mixture into the prepared pan.

In another bowl, mash the strawberries until almost smooth and colour with a drop or two of red food colouring.  Add the remaining 1 cup of icing sugar and remaining condensed milk, and press into the prepared tin on top of the white mixture. 

Place the pan into the fridge overnight, and once the coconut ice is set, cut it into 36 pieces.  Enjoy!