Sweet Weet-Bix Slice

Ingredients 

 5 Sanitarium Weet-Bix crushed

1½ cups white flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 tablespoons cocoa

¾ cup coconut

1 cup sugar

1 tablespoon golden syrup

200g margarine

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

1. Combine Weet-Bix, flour, baking powder, cocoa and coconut in a mixing bowl.

2. Place sugar, golden syrup and margarine into a saucepan and simmer until
sugar is dissolved.

3. Add vanilla essence and blend together.

4. Pour the liquid blend over dry ingredients and mix together.

5. Press into a 20cm x 30cm lined baking dish.

6. Bake in a moderate oven, 180˚C, for 15 minutes or until firm.

7. Ice with chocolate icing while still warm.

I love recipes like this. I got it from the weetbix website a while ago

You mix up all the dry ingredients.

When you combine all the first five ingredients, make sure you mix them in the bowl otherwise when you add the wet ingredients you don’t get an even distribution in the finished product.

I usually just melt the wet ingredients in the microwave but I followed the recipe and made sure the sugar had dissolved.

When a recipe gives you the measurements of a container to bake it in make sure you have the right sized container.

If it is bigger, then you baking will be thinner and take less time to bake and therefore burn of crumble.

If the container is small the baking will be thicker and take longer to cook or come out raw.

I made up an icing of:

1 tbsp butter

¼ cup boiling water

2 tbsp cocoa

1 -2 cups icing sugar.

Melt the butter in the boiling water and add the cocoa. Stir in the icing sugar to the consistency you want for spreading.

I have quite a few chocolate weetbix squares and a lot are crunchier than this.

This one is soft and almost cake like for some reason so a definite keeper.