Meg has really been enjoying cooking independently these holidays. Banana cakes and slices are her specialty. We are loving that she wants to cook too, because it means that there are snacks for the kids (and us) when they are hungry, plus we don’t have to cook either. She is double excited to cook if we are going to take her cooking somewhere such as church. You can see the pride radiating from her.
One of the recipes she has introduced us to is the Choc Weetbix slice. I’m not sure where the recipe comes from. It’s on a printed bit of paper stuck into the exercise book where we keep recipes we like. It’s faded and got spots of food all over it. A sure sign of a good recipe.
The other great thing about this recipe is that it is made entirely with pantry ingredients and foods we normally have on hand. At the end of the month, when cream, and other items are getting low, we usually still have the ingredients for this one.
- 9 Weet-bix (crushed)
- 1½ c dessicated coconut
- ¼c cocoa
- 100g choc chips (optional)
- few drops peppermint essence
- 1 x 400g tin condensed milk
- 125g butter
- 100g chocolate (for topping)
- Place Weet-bix, coconut, cocoa, and choc chips into a bowl.
- Melt the butter.
- Pour the condensed milk, butter, and peppermint essence into the bowl.
- Work quickly to ensure that all the ingredients combine.
- Press the mixture into a lined lamington (brownie) tin.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Melt the remaining chocolate and spread over the top of the slice.
- Allow the chocolate to set.
- Cut into squares.
- Store in the refrigerator
Do your kids love to cook? What are their favourite things to make? I’m always looking for ideas to expand my girls repetoire.
Thats so lovely that Meg enjoys cooking so much! Wow I’ve made Weet-Bix Slice before, but never thought to make a peppermint version – thats so clever of her! Thanks so much for linking up with our Fabulous Foodie Fridays party xxx
I think we had a similar recipe to these when I was a kid. They were so delicious and it was so hard not to eat all of them. Great that Meg takes pride in her cooking, I was the same when I was young and still to this day I love cooking for people.
Thanks Jo. The slice was amazing. And Alex loved that he could do it all himself. Will become a regular I think.
Thanks for following along. Hope your son enjoys it. Stay tuned for more adventures 🙂
Trying this one out with my son today. Thanks so much for sharing. Love following your blog from over in NZ and have finally caught up on all your posts. Can't wait to read more.
Thank you for your gorgeous photos. Shearing was always a winter time job in NW Qld so I forever associate shearing with the cold. As small children we loved the shed, as older children not so much as we were put to work! Mostly yarding sheep, keeping the pens full and counting shorn sheep although we all did our stints as rouseabouts and pressers. We had much bigger shearing teams, up to a dozen shearers, mostly made up of my cousins because that's what you did when you left school and didn't want to work for your Dad.
Oh Yum! I'm going to bookmark this for my little budding baker to make! xx