Happy Birthday eat quaff laugh

Happy Birthday to me...
Happy Birthday to me...
Happy Birthday eat quaff laugh...
Happy Birthday to me...

How time flies. I can't believe that it's already been 1 year since I started on my blogging journey. After meeting up with some other Melbourne bloggers on the weekend, I have realised just how much I have to learn!

Over the past year I've shared with you some of the food and drinks we've enjoyed and I hope that you have enjoyed reading about them. Maybe you've even had a go at cooking one of my recipes or have tracked down one of the wines I've written about.

Thank you so much for joining me on my journey.

To say thanks and Happy Birthday to me, have a piece of lemon slice. Nothing fancy, very old school, but yummy anyway. If I can resist eating the other half tin of condensed milk, I'm planning to try making another slice using mandarin instead. I think that would be lovely too.

Here's to many more birthdays and many more delicious meals and wonderful wines :-)

Lemon Slice

250g plain sweet biscuits

1 cup desiccated coconut

1/2 tin condensed milk

125g butter, melted

Finely grated rind of 1 lemon

Prepare a 20x30cm slice tin by lining it with baking paper.

Place biscuits in a food processor and whiz until they are finely crushed. If you don't have a food processor, put the biscuits in a bag and crush them with a rolling pin.

In a large bowl, combine biscuit crumbs, coconut, condensed milk, butter and lemon rind.

Stir well to combine and make sure all the mixture is wet.

Press the mixture into the tin with the back of a spoon, making sure you even it out and spread it well into the corners.

Spread the icing over the top and refrigerate until set.

Cut into squares to serve.

Icing

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

1 1/2 Tbs lemon juice

Combine icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl and mix until combined. 

You want the icing to be quite thick, so add extra icing sugar, if needed.