Coconut Icing Recipe

Ingredients for Coconut Icing

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 egg whites, beaten stiff
• 1½ cups grated coconut
• Boil sugar and water to 217 degrees F. Put your pan containing the dissolved sugar and water (syrup) on a hot fire and wait until it boils. To test for temperature

Instructions

1. Take with a spoon a little of the syrup and drop slowly in cold water.
2. When the sugar drops out from the spoon into threads, it is ready.
3. Pour gradually into the beaten whites of egg the hot syrup, beating all the time.
4. Mix in 3/4 cup of the grated coconut.
5. Sprinkle the balance of the grated coconut over the cake, after frosting.