Rose made this for us when we visited the Booms in their new home (see post coming soon!) to check out their newly installed Homewood Stove. The slice is delicious – quite spongy and the lemon icing gives it a bit of zing.

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1 cup chopped apricots
1 cup milk
110 g butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
¾ cup coconut
½ cup flour
½ cup self-raising flour

Soak apricots in milk for one hour. Cream together butter and sugar and beat in eggs. Add coconut, flours and soaked apricots and mix all together. Pour into a greased baking and tray.
Bake for 20 minutes at 180 C. Ice with lemon icing (Edmonds Cookery Book) and sprinkle more coconut over the top.

Janie, 23rd May, 2011