Name: Pernel Fruitworld Café’s coffee and walnut slice
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: Coffee and walnut slice; 300 gram vanilla wine biscuits, crumbled; 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk; 50 gram butter, melted; 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped; 2 shots espresso coffee or 3 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in 2½ tablespoons hot water; 1/2 cup chocolate chips; Coffee icing; 2 cup icing sugar; 1 teaspoon butter, softened; 1 shot espresso coffee or 1½ teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 4 teaspoons hot water; extra hot water; extra chopped walnuts and chocolate chips

Pernel Fruitworld Café’s coffee and walnut slice

Pernel Fruitworld Café makes a bloody good coffee and walnut slice. They kindly share their recipe so you can create this favourite at home

Makes 20 slice

Prep

20M

Marinate

This recipe first appeared in Food magazine issue 56.

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Ingredients

Coffee and walnut slice

300 gram vanilla wine biscuits, crumbled

1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

50 gram butter, melted

1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped

2 shots espresso coffee or 3 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in 2½ tablespoons hot water

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Coffee icing

2 cup icing sugar

1 teaspoon butter, softened

1 shot espresso coffee or 1½ teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 4 teaspoons hot water

extra hot water

extra chopped walnuts and chocolate chips

Method

1.Line a 20cm x 24cm slice pan with baking paper.

2.To make the base, combine the biscuit crumbs, condensed milk, butter, walnuts and coffee in a large bowl and mix together well. Add the chocolate chips then press the mixture into the pan. Refrigerate the base for 1 hour.

3.To make the icing, combine the icing sugar, butter and coffee and mix together well. Add sufficient hot water to make the mixture a spreadable consistency.

4.Spread the icing over the base and sprinkle over the extra walnuts and chocolate chips, gently pressing them into the icing. Chill the slice until it has set. Remove the slice from the pan and cut it into square pieces.