When I was growing up we had a wonderful nanny, Mrs Thompson, who baked every Wednesday. In our house, mum never bought store bought biscuits or baked goods, it was home-made or nothing (thanks Mum for instilling good house-keeping values!). On the baking rota was most definitely the classic raspberry and coconut slice. I’ve reinvented this family classic, given it a whole-foods makeover. I’m completely satisfied with the result. It's delicious!!
The base and top are chewy, with the filling creamy and tangy.
Ingredients
Base and top
120g blanched almonds
6 medjool dates
1 tbls tahini
1 tbls nut butter
pinch sea salt
Filling
2 cups frozen raspberries
3 tbls coconut cream
Method
Add almonds in a high speed blender until fine and looking like flour. Add all other ingredients and blender to a paste-like consistency. Check to see if it clumps together nicely. If it is a little loose and powder, add more tahini or nut butter.
Place half the mixture in the base of a 16 x 10 cm container. Press firmly. Freeze while you are getting on with the filling.
For the filling, place raspberries in a pot and cook on low heat until the raspberries have collapsed. Add in the coconut cream, continue to cook until it resembles a jammy texture. Around 10 minutes. Cool completely.
Remove slice base from freezer and spread the raspberry mixture evenly over the top. Place back into freezer, until firm.
Remove from freezer and place remaining base mixture over the top, press down firmly and evenly. Place back into freezer to set.
Once set, slice and store in freezer.
Note:
With my version, before placing the coconut milk into the raspberry mixture, I cooked down the raspberries until jammy, then added 1/3 mixture onto the base. Then, added the coconut cream to the remaining raspberry mixture. I cooked this down again until thick, then placed this mixture of the first layer of raspberry mixture. The purpose of doing it this way was to create two colour tiers, once bright pink, and the other a creamy pink. This was for optics only and doesn't change the flavour.
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