Seaside rough‘n’magic

Who can resist a cake with an interesting name?

Certainly not me, that's for sure.

Which is why I found myself sitting outside the Tongue’n’Groove Lounge in lovely by-the-sea Raglan before a coconut rough and a magic slice.




The coconut rough is rougher than a shag-pile rug and about as coco-nutty as a Malibu under a palm tree. A biscuit base – which takes some fork-force to dissect – is topped with a chewy mass of shredded coconut and milk chocolate.

It's crunchy round the edges and icing sugar-sweet through and through.

The magic slice turns out to be a dense, gooey heap of thick chocolate discs, fat raisins and shredded coconut stuck into toffee and set atop an orange malt biscuit base. Something for everyone in there.

Sickeningly good and fork required.

Coconut roughs and magic slices are made by the clever people at the Tongue’n’Groove. They each go perfectly with several cups of well-brewed tea and someone to share them with. Go there with someone and see for yourself!