Coconut Bites with Lemon & Vanilla Icing - Vegan Recipe Club

Ingredients

• Cakes
• 70g coconut oil, melted
• Seeds of one vanilla pod
• 160g golden caster sugar
• 120g plain white flour
• 80g desiccated coconut
• 20g cornflour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 3 flax eggs (3 tbsp ground flax seeds, 7.5 tbsp water)
• 1 cup almond milk
• Buttercream
• 50g vegan shortening (eg Trex. This can be bought in most supermarkets)
• 50g vegan margarine
• 250g Icing sugar (plus up to 250g extra for thickening)
• A splash of lemon juice
• 1 vanilla pod