Lolly Cake

Lolly cake is a classic Kiwi treat, perfect with a cup of coffee or as an afternoon snack.
It is usually made with Fruit Puffs or Eskimo lollies, which are a sort of hard marshmallow type candy.

(picture sourced from here)

Recipe;
200g butter (about 1.5 sticks)
4 Tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tin condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 packets malt biscuits/cookies
1 packet fruit puffs/eskimos (180g)
dessicated coconut for sprinkling on top.

Method;
Crush up the malt biscuits until they are quite fine (a rolling pin works well for this) and chop up the eskimos/fruit puffs into roughly 1cm cubes.
Mix these together in a LARGE bowl or saucepan.

Melt the butter, brown sugar, condensed milk in the microwave for a minute or so and mix thoroughly before adding the vanilla essence and pouring this mixture over the biscuit crumbs and lollies.

This is the part I hate the most;
Get your hands in and mix everything together. The mixture needs to be quite sticky so it doesn't crumble when it sets. Mix it all together really well and then either roll it out into two log shapes, spread it out into a slice tray lined with baking paper, or roll into little balls.

Once you have chosen your preferred shape, cover the outside of it in dessicated coconut, wrap in baking paper (if you're making logs) and put in the fridge to set for a few hours. (actually, I lie, the waiting for it to set is just as bad as getting your hands sticky, if not worse!)

Voila!