Date Slice with Lemon Icing

🧂 Ingredients

• 125 g butter
• 1 tbs golden syrup
• 150 g (1 cup) plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 110 g (½ cup) caster sugar
• 85 g (1 cup) coconut
• 180 g (1 cup) dates

  finely chopped
• 225 g (1 ½ cups) pure icing sugar
• 2 ½ tbs lemon juice

  see notes

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius (fan-forced). Grease and line a square slice
  20cm baking tin with baking paper.
• 2 Melt the butter and golden syrup in a microwave-safe bowl on 50% power for 1-2
  minutes or until melted.
• 3 Sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl with the melted butter. Add the
  caster sugar, coconut and chopped dates.
  
  Mix until well combined.
• 4 Press firmly into slice tin. Place into the oven for 20 minutes or until lightly
  golden.
• 5 To make the lemon icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough lemon
  juice to make the glaze spreadable (but not too runny). Beat with a wooden spoon
  until smooth and combined.
• 6 Spread the lemon icing over the still warm slice.
• 7 Stand at room temperature for 30 minutes or until icing has set.
• 8 Cut into pieces. Serve.
• 9 Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius (fan-forced). Grease and line a square slice
  20cm baking tin with baking paper.
• 10 Weigh dates into the Thermomix bowl and roughly chop by pressing Turbo 5-6
  times. Set aside.
• 11 Melt the butter and golden syrup together for 2-3 minutes, 80 degrees, Speed 2
  (or until melted).
• 12 Weigh in the dry ingredients (including the chopped dates). Mix for 10-15
  seconds on Reverse, Speed 2, or until well combined.
• 13 Press firmly into slice tin. Place into the oven for 20 minutes or until lightly
  golden.
• 14 To make the lemon icing, place the icing sugar into a clean and dry Thermomix
  bowl. Sift by pressing Turbo 5-6 times. Scrape down the sides.
  
  Add the lemon juice and mix for 30 seconds on Speed 5 until smooth and combined
  (scraping down the sides occasionally). Add extra lemon juice if required - the
  icing should be spreadable but not too runny.
• 15 Spread the lemon icing over the still warm slice.
• 16 Stand at room temperature for 30 minutes or until icing has set. Cut into
  pieces.

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