Blackberry jam
Make this easy blackberry jam with your glut of summer fruit – perfect with fresh white bread. Use jam sugar (with added pectin) to make sure it sets properly
Blackcurrant coconut slices
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus cooling
- Easy
- Makes 12
Skip to ingredients
For the base
- 100g butterplus extra for greasing
- 100g plain flour
- 100g white caster sugar
- 85g desiccated coconut
- 3 large egg yolks(save the whites for the topping)
- 4-5 tbsp blackcurrant jam(with whole blackcurrants)
For the topping
- 3 large egg whites
- 75g white caster sugar
- 50g desiccated coconut
- handful coconut flakes(optional)
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal257
- fat15g
- saturates11g
- carbs26g
- sugars20g
- fibre2g
- protein3g
- salt0.2g
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 20 x 23cm traybake tin with a little butter and line the base with a long strip of baking parchment that extends above the rim of the tin at either end – this will make it easier to get the slices out of the tin later.
step 2
To make the base, tip the flour, sugar and coconut into a bowl, mix everything together, then rub in the butter with your fingers to make coarse crumbs. Stir in the egg yolks with the blade of a knife, then bring the mixture together with your hands to make a dough. Press the dough into the base of the tin, smoothing it with the back of a spoon to make an even layer. Spread the jam over most of the dough, keeping it a little bit away from the sides of the tin.
step 3
To make the topping, whisk the egg whites with an electric hand whisk until stiff, then gradually add the sugar to make a glossy meringue. Fold in the desiccated coconut, then spoon over the jam layer. Scatter with the coconut flakes, if using, and bake for 25 mins until golden.
step 4
Leave to cool in the tin, then carefully lift out, using the parchment to help you, and cut into slices. Will keep in an airtight container for 2 days.
