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By Belinda Cleary For Daily Mail Australia 22:50 29 Dec 2020, updated 22:50 29 Dec 2020
- An Australian woman has shared her grandmother's 60-year-old slice recipe
- The chocolate Weetbix slice had home cooks going crazy with nostalgia
- It can be cooked in an oven or in the air fryer, according to cook Libby Hakim
An Australian woman has revealed her tips and tricks to making her grandmother's Weetbix slice, and home cooks are going crazy for it.
It is Aussie cooking with a side of nostalgia, according to home cook Libby Hakim, who recreates dishes from handwritten recipe books once owned by her mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
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The 60-year-old Weetbix slice recipe does come with a surprisingly modern twist - it can also be cooked in an airfryer which makes it the perfect holiday snack for families with a caravan.
It requires Weetbix, brown sugar, flour, coconut, cocoa and butter for the base and icing sugar, cocoa, butter and boiling water for the icing.
Ms Hakim said she used to love taking the slice to school and tends to imagine it 'in 70s Tupperware'.
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She posted the recipe on an airfryer Facebook page and it was a huge hit.
'This was one of my favourite childhood slices,' one woman said.
'Oh, yum, I would be keen to try that,' said another.
Others shared tips on how they change up the recipe, including adding sultanas.
'I have never tried one that doesn't need cooking before, I am intrigued,' another said.
'It is very nice, I always had it when I was a little one,' another woman said.
Ms Hakim said she used to tell her mum she would like to cook this slice with her, giving it an extra special place in her heart.
HOW CAN YOU MAKE WEETBIX SLICE?
INGREDIENTS
3Weetbix (or 55 grams of another similar wheat-based cereal)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup SR flour
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 teaspoon cocoa
125 grams butter
ICING
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 tablespoon butter (15 grams)
1-2 tablespoon boiling water
METHOD
Pre-heat oven to moderate (I use 170 degrees celsius, fan-forced).
Grease a slice tin (approx 26 x 16 cm) and line with baking paper, leaving excess on the sides to lift out slice once cooked.
Crush Weetbix into a bowl.
Add remaining dry ingredients to bowl and stir to combine.
Melt butter and add to dry ingredients. Mix well.
Press mixture into slice tin with hands and even the top surface using the back of a spoon.
Cook for 20 minutes.
Start preparing the icing a few minutes before the slice is ready to be removed from the oven. This slice is iced while hot from the oven.
ICING
Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl.
Add 1 tablespoon of the boiling water to the butter and allow butter to melt.
Add melted butter mixture to icing sugar and mix well.
Add a little extra boiling water if necessary so the icing is soft enough to spread. Spread the icing over the slice while still hot.
Allow to cool completely before lifting from the tin using the baking paper and slicing into 24 pieces.
AIRFRYER METHOD
Using the 3.2L Kmart Air Fryer (or equivalent), use a circle of baking paper to line the basket so the paper reaches about one third to half way up the side of the basket.
Make the slice base according to the instructions above and pour mixture into air fryer basket.
Press down with your hands to make the base even and firm.
Smooth out the base further using the back of a spoon.
Cook in the air fryer at 155 degrees celsius for 20 minutes.
ICING
Make up icing according to instructions above a few minutes before the base finishes cooking.
Once base is cooked, remove basket and pour icing over base while still hot.
Place basket on bench so that it can cool evenly.
Allow to cool completely before lifting slice from basket, lifting gently around the sides until it comes out of the basket in one piece.
Cut slice into pieces.
Source: Cooking with Nana Ling
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