My admiration of Annabel Crabb is well established so I will not revisit it due to it bordering on embarrassing and inappropriate. But her first cookbook Special Delivery is fabulous. There are myriad recipes I have bookmarked but keep coming back time and time again to this apricot slice recipe. I’ve made it four times. FOUR.

- 200g dried apricots, finely diced
- 125 g butter, melted
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- ½ cup almonds, roughly chopped
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup icing sugar
- 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
- Put the apricots in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave to seep for 30 minutes and then drain well
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a 20x30cm slice tin (I tend to make it in a 20cm square tin because I like the slice quite high)
- Mix together the sugar, coconut, flour and almonds
- Mix together the apricots and the butter
- Mix dry with wet and then add the milk to loosen it all up
- Pour into your tin and bake for 30 minutes or so (a bit longer if doing in the smaller tin option)
- Leave to cool then ice, although I've been known to ice it hot because I can.not.wait.any.longer
- Add the lemon juice bit by bit until you get a relatively thin paste, drizzle over the slice.

Onward!