Coconut Meringue Jam Slices
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
36
ingredients
-
BASE
- 125 g butter
- 100 ml sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 5 ml vanilla extract
- 15 ml oil
- 500 ml flour
- 12.32 ml baking powder
- 2 ml salt
-
FILLING
- 59.16-73.94 ml apricot jam
-
TOPPING
- 3 extra large egg whites or 4 large egg whites
- 50 ml caster sugar
- 100 g coconut
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
-
BASE:
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in egg, then vanilla and oil.
- Sift in dry ingredients and mix until crumbly.
- Press into prepared cookie sheet.
-
FILLING:
- Heat jam in microwave for 1 minute.
- Beat well and leave to cool.
- Spread over raw base when cool.
- TOPPING:.
- Whisk egg whites til very stiff.
- Add sugar and beat til glossy.
- Fold in coconut and spread over jam.
- Place in oven, immediately turn heat down to 325F and bake for 10 minutes.
- Turn heat down to 300F and bake for further 20 minutes.
- Switch off oven and leave for 5 minutes before removing.
- Slice whilst piping hot.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bokenpop aka Mad
Milford, Delaware
I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!