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If you haven't guessed already, we are big time greedies in our house.  This recipie was one that I fancied making back when we were doing the biscuits, so this Sunday we had a go.  The original instructions produced pink and white coconut ice squares, which I thought could be given a festive twist by using green instead of red food colouring, and if we stacked the squares in a particular formation we could make a Christmas tree shape.

Eilir again relished the task of mixing the ingredients - "The chocolate brownie milk [condensed milk] is winning" i.e. the other ingredients were getting covered in it.  Then, letting his imagination fly, - "It's wetting Camelot up, sucking it into the deep water".  He was particularly enthusiastic at the stage of adding the food colouring - "I want it to be super green".  

"It looks good, it smells good, will it taste good?"

This recipe involved waiting for it to set overnight.  I explained my idea to Eilir about making the Christmas tree shape from the cubes we would cut, but he had a much better idea.  He had seen something on a craft programme that showed you how to make a tree from star shapes, so he dug out his star shaped play dough cutter, and wanted to use this to shape the coconut ice instead.  The next day (after washing said cutter) I let Eilir show me what he meant and (hey presto!) it worked really well.   I gave him some edible silver balls (left over from making a birthday cake) to decorate it with - "This is really cool with the baubles", and he then demanded the orange slices (that he knew were in the cupboard) to represent presents under the tree.  I used the left over coconut ice to make my own tree shaped heap with some cherries.  I think we all know that Eilir's small but beautiful version wins hand's down!