Like a flapjack (Image: Fb)
Weetabix is a wise breakfast alternative however doesn’t precisely scream tasty snack.
However one girl has a recipe to vary all that, taking inspiration from her grandmother.
Libby Hakim defined find out how to make scrumptious chocolate and coconut Weetabix slices in simply half-hour.
The house prepare dinner shared her ‘Aussie cooking with a aspect of nostalgia’ on Fb the place she took her grandma’s recipe and gave it a little bit of a contemporary twist.
The 60-year-old recipe might be made utilizing an air-fryer, which clearly not round when Libby’s grandma first made it.
Libby shared all the details on her blog, the place she revealed a word from her youthful self on the unique recipe sheet, saying: ‘Mum I need to prepare dinner this’.
Many years later, Libby has perfected the merchandise.
Yum (Image: Fb)
Components:
- Three Weetbix (or 55 grams of one other comparable wheat-based cereal)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup SR flour
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
- 125 grams butter
For the icing:
- 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1 tablespoon butter (15 grams)
- 1-2 tablespoon boiling water
Technique:
- Pre-heat oven
- Grease a slice tin (roughly 26 x 16 cm) and line with baking paper, leaving extra on the perimeters to raise out slice as soon as cooked.
- Crush Weetbix right into a bowl.
- Add remaining dry substances to bowl and stir to mix.
- Soften butter and add to dry substances. Combine effectively.
- Press combination into slice tin with fingers and even the highest floor utilizing the again of a spoon.
- Cook dinner for 20 minutes.
- Begin making ready the icing a couple of minutes earlier than the slice is able to be faraway from the oven. This slice is iced whereas sizzling from the oven.
Icing:
- Sift icing sugar and cocoa right into a bowl.
- Add 1 tablespoon of the boiling water to the butter and permit butter to soften.
- Add melted butter combination to icing sugar and blend effectively.
- Add slightly further boiling water if essential so the icing is mushy sufficient to unfold. Unfold the icing over the slice whereas nonetheless sizzling.
- Permit to chill fully earlier than lifting from the tin utilizing the baking paper and slicing into 24 items.
Airfryer technique:
- Utilizing an air fryer, use a circle of baking paper to line the basket so the paper reaches about one third to half method up the aspect of the basket.
- Make the slice base in accordance with the directions above and pour combination into air fryer basket.
- Press down together with your fingers to make the bottom even and agency.
- Easy out the bottom additional utilizing the again of a spoon.
- Cook dinner within the air fryer at 155 levels celsius for 20 minutes.
ICING:
- Make up icing in accordance with directions above a couple of minutes earlier than the bottom finishes cooking.
- As soon as base is cooked, take away basket and pour icing over base whereas nonetheless sizzling.
- Place basket on bench in order that it will probably cool evenly.
- Permit to chill fully earlier than lifting slice from basket, lifting gently across the sides till it comes out of the basket in a single piece.
- Lower slice into items.
You may make it utilizing an air fryer (Image: Fb)
‘Weetbix Slice is a type of slices that’s nice to pop into lunch bins or take pleasure in as a sneaky snack,’ Libby wrote on her weblog.
‘It’s additionally one which’ll rapidly change into a household favorite – if it’s not already.
‘I don’t keep in mind a time when my mum didn’t make this slice.
‘Once I consider it, I can see it perched inside a Tupperware container from the 70s. However it didn’t keep there for lengthy. It at all times disappeared rapidly.’
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