Coconut - Lime Squares
"These are great-tasting."
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- Ingredients:
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16 squares
ingredients
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Crust
- 3⁄4 cup flour, plus
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into bits
- 1⁄3 cup sweetened flaked coconut, toasted and cooled
- 1⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
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Filling
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄3 cup flour
- 1⁄2 cup fresh lime juice, plus
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated lime zest
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Garnish
- 1⁄3 cup sweetened flaked coconut, toasted and cooled
directions
- For crust: Preheat oven to 325F.
- Butter and flour an 8-inch square baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
- Blend together with fingertips flour, butter, coconut, confectioners’ sugar and salt until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Pat mixture into prepared pan and bake in middle of oven 25-30 minutes, or until golden-brown.
- Reduce oven temperature to 300F.
- Make filling: Whisk together eggs and sugar until combined well and stir in flour, lime juice and zest.
- Pour filling mixture over crust and bake in middle of oven for 20 minutes.
- Top custard with coconut garnish and bake 5-10 minutes longer, or until just set.
- Cool on rack and chill 1 hour.
- Cut into 16, 2-inch squares.
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As the description says, these are great tasting! Actually they're awesome. I made them gluten free using cornflour and cornstarch for the crust and rice flour and cornstarch for the custard. Worked like a spell. There don't seem to be sweetened coconut flakes available in Germany, at least I've never seen them, so I used unsweetened, and it was still plenty sweet. Love the lime flavour. I used 2 8x4 inch pans and layered them with nonstick paper so I could easily lift the bars out of the pans. Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe! -
These are great and I'm pretty sure that even super picky DH is going to like them. I had everything on hand and really couldn't be happier with the bars. They have a nice sunny color so they are pretty and the ingredients are things that we like so how could this not be a hit! I took a tip from awalde and used my springform pan. It released well and a couple of the smaller pieces made ideal tasting samples. So good. Made for Culinary Quest 2014.
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Oh Ev, this is so delicious.<br/>I did not have a 9 inch square mold so I used a round 10 inch one (Springform) and the quantity was perfect.<br/>To cut into square I found the pizza cutter the best.<br/>We all loved it very much and we saved a few pieces for a present,<br/>My family was very happy I prepared this, as they knew you are chef even more.<br/>Hugs from us all!<br/>Made for Culinary Quest 2014. -
Really nice flavour & presentation! Nice to have something a little different than all the lemon bars out there.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
