Iced Chocolate Crunchies

"These taste like brownies but are crunchy, chewy cookies. I usually have to make a double batch of these as my family enjoy them a little too much!"
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
28
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ingredients

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directions

  • BASE: Mix together, sugar, flour, coconut, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and oatmeal.
  • Beat in butter and vanilla extract until thoroughly combined.
  • Press firmly into greased pan.
  • Bake at 350F for 20 minutes.
  • Cut into squares and leave to cool in pan before spreading with topping.
  • TOPPING: Beat icing sugar, cocoa, butter and vanilla together.
  • Add just enough hot water to make a spreading consistency-DO NOT use too much water or the icing will not set.
  • Spread over the base and re-cut squares when icing is set.
  • Remove from pan when cold.

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Reviews

  1. I can't really rate this. No one in my family eats coconut, so I was just going to skip it. I didn't realize that it was the binder for the mixture. I did add some water and salvaged some brownie like cakes. One problem with the recipe is that it doesn't specify what size pan to use.
     
  2. I'm so glad to see this recipe. It's one I used to make often and haven't for quite a while. It's delicious and straight forward to make. I used to have to make it for the teachers at school who asked my kids for it!
     
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I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!
 
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