This is a long-standing favourite from my family. Brilliant for lunch boxes. My aunt made it when I was a kid and I loved it as much as my kids do now!
3 Weetbix
Crush on speed 5 for 5 seconds. Set aside.
150 gms butter
Melted for 3 mins at 70C, speed 1.
Add
1 cup SR Flour
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
Crushed Weetbix
Mix at Speed 6 for 10-20 seconds.
Press into lamington tray lined with baking paper and bake for 30 mins. 170C
Ice with chocolate icing.
members' commentsCP - This recipe worked out fine, however personally I sort of like a roughish texture - so I have crushed up roughly at the end when adding all the other ingredients. Also modified the recipe to my oldie and used 175g butter, and 2 x tablespoons of cocoa (instead of 1/4 cup) registered 5g but I don't know if I can trust that so maybe 10g cos its not that much different.
auds - I made this using 45g of weetbix crumbs from the bottom of the box. I weighed a whole weetbix and it was 15g so easy to remember when using the crumbs. There is something seriously wrong with this recipe. It seems to evaporate in the container I put it in. Only crumbs left. As soon as I make it it vanishes right before my eyes. Even the boss turns into a little kid and cant stop eating it. Seriously this is so good and so easy. Next time I will have to make 1 and a half times the recipe to fit in my lamington tin perfectly. Thanks for sharing.
Nik2WIN - I made these and took out the coconut as I don't think mine are too keen on coconut and put in almonds. Ds1 says he doesn't like it! How can you NOT like it.
KerrynN - Made this using only 100g butter and 1/3 cup agave syrup instead of sugar. I iced them with the icing suggested by Judy Dawn at
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=7852.msg111037#msg111037. I liked it and the kids seem happy enough eating them! One of them even tried to convince me that they are OK to eat for breakfast seeing as they are weetbix...
MJ - I've been making this recipe for years. It's a family favourite. The Thermomix makes it so much easier!
Moo2 - I made this for my kids and they absolutely loved it. I am having the same disappearing problems that a couple of others mentioned. I made it with no alterations and it was so easy and yummy. Thanks for posting.
CarolineW - I made these using Oatibix and they've been a hit. Dd1 gave them 5 out of 5 :-). The Oatibix don't seem to spoil the effect.
faffa70 - I think the oatibix will make it a little drier Caroline. I make this a lot and it is fairly dry though sometimes I look at it and it seems to be extra dry, I generally add about a tablespoon (20g) of milk and mix through.
Rara1 - Miss 9 woke up this morning and said she wanted to make a weetbix slice.
I said "go to mr google and search for a recipe"
She found yours Amanda. And off she went and made it herself........ Holy Moly this is so good!!! There is only a little bit left.....Miss 9 keeps saying "stop eating it. It's not finished, I still have to put the icing on" It looks like she will be making this again tomorrow - hopefully with icing. Thank you Amanda for an easy delicious slice.
MJ - When I was making this again recently, I realised that my recipe is slightly different. Mine has 2 Tbsp Golden Syrup and 1 tsp vanilla added to the butter. I think it makes a difference. I didn't have enough weetbix crumbs, so used a cereal that I had which had malted wheat flakes, apples, raspberries and a crunchy sort of thing added to it. I don't eat cereal so I can't remember the name of it. It's sold in a natural coloured cardboard box. A nice addition is peppermint icing coloured green.
snappy - I love this slice so I have tried to 'healthify' it for the kids and me. I added about 1/4 cup of chia seeds and 1/4 cup crio bru (instead of using cocoa) in with the weetbix and ground them up. Set aside. Used rapadura instead of sugar. Instead of using all refined white flour, I used 1/4 cup oats and 1/4 cup quinoa flakes and again ground them up to a powder. I then used 1/2 cup white flour. I reduced the butter to 100g and added an egg. I also added in some walnuts for extra crunch. The batter tasted yummy.
DJ - This slice seems very similar to this one which is also delicious.
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=10800.0When we had no cornflakes we used rolled oats. It was ok but drier.
Agree, brilliant and recipe brought back to UK from QLD in 1982!
astarra - Apparently it "tastes like brownie" (Miss3) .... in other words a definite thumbs up! Thanx for the recipe, Amanda.
Amy - This is yummy, thanks for the recipe Amanda! I did use shredded wheat instead of Weetbix, and I added sultanas and some slivered almonds. Also I didn't ice it because of SD's diabetes.
Uni - I agree with Amy , thanks for a very easy recipe Amanda.
ES - We have a weetbix free house (yuk!), so I used 1/2 cup of the crumbs from the box of fruity bites cereal and crushed 2 1/2 cups of cornflakes by hand. Delicious!
sue purrb - I made this yesterday to use up the weetbix crumbs. I didn't have the full amount of coconut so added some sultanas and white chocolate chips. I must have used too big a tray, as they are quite thin and crunchy, but delicious. I have called them biscuits and no one is any the wiser!
Brumington - My four year old and I made these using leftover crumbs from the weetbix box. We topped with a simple chocolate icing. Lovely and very simple.
astarra - Miss7 has just got these in the oven now, we only had 3/4 cup of coconut left so that is all we used, also used nuttelex in place of the butter so miss5 can eat it too.
ES - Made this again and this time I had 2 weetbix leftover from a hotel brekky, so I threw in some oats and some bran to make up the difference. I used shredded coconut instead of desiccated, and MJ's suggestion of peppermint icing instead of chocolate. DS declared them DELICIOUS!
