Some Saturdays you feel like baking something, but don’t want to have to be in the kitchen all day as you have a million other jobs you want to catch up with, right?
Well, this Chocolate Weetbix Slice is the perfect, quick recipe! It is by NO means a healthy one, but I have made it with coconut oil and natural sweetening products before (I’ll put them in brackets for you). I’ve had this recipe forever, and I think it came from my year 10 Home Economics workbook.
CHOCOLATE WEETBIX SLICE
Ingredients-
180gm butter (or coconut oil. Don’t use as much of this though)
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
1 cup of desiccated coconut
3 Weetbix, crushed (you can use GF ones too)
1 cup of SR flour (or almond meal/GF flour mix)
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3/4 cup of sugar (or 1/3 cup of rice malt syrup, or 1/4 cup of Nativia)
1/4 cup of cocoa or cacao
Pretheat oven to 180c. Melt butter and add vanilla, then put all other ingredients into the bowl. Mix well until all of the butter is combined. Press mixture into a lined slice pan. Bake for about 15-20 minutes until firm. Take out of oven and cool. I used Betty Crocker’s Double Chocolate Fudge Frosting to ice it, but you can make your own icing with icing sugar, butter and cocoa. Once it is completely cool, cut into squares and have with a cup of coffee.
It will keep in an airtight container for a week, but it will be gone before then!
Its such an easy recipe, and great to do with the kids. They can lick the bowl too- no eggs!
Have a great weekend ~Ness x
Comments (2)
I am definitely giving this recipe a try BUT I live in Southampton, Ontario, Canada and am not sure I can find Weetbix here — but will give it a look. Also, what is ‘SR’ flour, please? And, for sweetener, I use a combination of Monk Fruit sugar and Xylitol.. just like sugar, mixes and measures the same and ‘0’ calories of course.
I just found your site and love it… similar aesthetics and have just subscribed without having seen anything more than your main page and this yummy recipe. Looking forward to more. By the way, just as a matter of interest my husband and I are addicted to the British show, “Escape To The Country’ — an English, roll arm, down-filled sofa done up in raspberry linen, is on my wish list. I can see me napping on it now, and I NEVER let myself nap.
Best,
Linda
Southampton, Ontario, Canada
Hi Linda,
Welcome, and thank you for your kind words. Your equivalent to Weetbix is called Weet-a-bix. Apparently, you have been getting them over there since 1967. Using a sugar substitute is fine too. I used to be totally refined sugar free and would use raw honey or something like Stevia so you will be fine there.
I completely understand about Escape To The Country as I am Scottish and would mover there in a heartbeat and be more than happy in a wee stone hoose.
Thank you for you comment, Linda. Happy Sunday!
Ness x