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Cherry Ripe Slice

Add more cherries if you'd like a deeper colour. Or if you cant get great red glace cherries you can put the tiniest drop of red colour in the filling.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
1 hr
Servings: 12
Course: Cake , Others

Ingredients

Base
  • 150 gm SR flour
  • 40 gm cocoa dark Dutch cocoa, 4 Tablespoons
  • 80 gm caster sugar 1/3 cup
  • 150 gm melted butter
  • 100 gm Biscuits Marie, granita, or any sweet plain biscuit or Gram crackers in US
Topping
  • 150 coconut desiccated unsweetened
  • 400 gm glace cherries
  • 400 ml condensed milk 1 x tin
  • 2 drops red food colour
Icing
  • 150 gm dark chocolate chopped
  • 100 ml cream

Instructions

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  1. Oven 170. 1 x Paper lined brownie tin 10 x 7 in or 18 x 25 cm
  2. First add the flour, biscuits, sugar and cocoa. Blitz this till you have a fine floury mass.
  3. Pour in the melted butter and blitz till combined . ( the mixture is relatively dry).
  4. Press into the brownie tin, and bake for approx 15 minutes. Take out of the oven and put aside for a few minutes.
  5. Next put 3/4 the cherries into the food processor and add the coconut and condensed milk and pulse till pink and well combined. Rough chop the remaining cherries and add to the mix.
  6. Pour this mixture over the base and spread out.
  7. Bake this for approximately 20- 30 min. Don't let it brown too much, I take it out when the outside edges have just started to brown but the centre is softer.
  8. Cool the slice completely before icing.
  9. Chop the chocolate into very small bits. Warm the cream in a bowl over a double boiler, or in the microwave to warm without boiling. Take off the heat and add the chopped chocolate and stir till melted and the chocolate mixture is glossy and smooth. Pour over the slice and spread with a pallet knife.
  10. Let this set in the fridge for up to an hour or overnight before slicing for the best results

Notes

  • Notes Don't add chocolate to boiling cream. The chocolate could split. If you find that you may have done this and the mixture is not smooth and it looks a little separated then shock it with a tablespoon of very cold cream or milk and stir through quickly. This often brings it back together.