I love to bake and more-so love to cook. I got the Gran’s Sweet Pantry cookbook for my birthday from my bestie, Kate, and immediately bookmarked some great recipes to try out.
The first recipe that caught my eye was this Wanganui Slice. Wanganui is the small town where I spent a chunk of my childhood, i’ll always have a soft spot for it. So when this recipe was named after Wanganui, I knew I was destined to make it.
This Wanganui slice is a delicious, sweet and crunchy no-bake slice, easy to make and perfect for afternoon tea.
Wanganui Slice
// What You’ll Need
CRUST
- 240 g Kremelta
- 4 tbsp cocoa
- 1 C icing sugar
- 1 C desiccated coconut
- 200 g cornflakes
- 1/4 tsp salt
FILLING
- 50 g butter
- 1/2 x 365 g tin sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 1/2 C brown sugar
- 1/2 C almond slices, toasted. Optional
// Method
Grease and line a slice tin. Set aside.
Melt the Kremelta. Add cocoa, icing sugar, coconut, cornflakes and salt. Mix well to combine. Divide the mixture into two and add half into the slice tin and press down. Set aside.
On to the filling: Melt butter, then add condensed milk, vanilla, golden syrup and brown sugar. Boil gently for 5 minutes, stirring continually. Pour mixture over the base, then spread the other half of the crust mixture over the top. If you are using almonds sprinkle them over the top.
Pop in the fridge to set overnight, or if you can’t wait, at least a few hours. Cut into rectangles or squares as desired. Enjoy!
Our new baby, Eddie, decided he wanted to model for me while I was shooting the slice!
This recipe is from Gran’s Sweet Pantry, by Natalie Oldfield.
This post is featured in Sweet New Zealand
Haha Eddie knows that his mom’s cooking is good!
He really does! We think he has a sweet tooth, as everytime anything sweet is out he’s VERY interested in it! xx
Some cats do love sweet things!
Our cat in the UK was a savoury cat so he used to eat raw bread dough! But he also had cupcake frosting, butter, cream, milk….he was so spoilt! Eddie is going to be the same. But he’s cute so it’s all good 😛 xxx
I have this book as well! it’s amazing! This looks yum. My favourite so far has been the ginger crunch 🙂
Will have to look into the ginger crunch! Yum! I’ve seriously bookmarked about 15 recipes I want to try. I think the next one will be her savoury muffins. Yummm!
YUM! This looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
Thanks lovely! It really really is!
Thanks Katie! It really is yummy – and super easy to make x
I was sure I commented on this but it mustn’t have worked! The slice looks delicious, and I grew up in Wanganui as well, only moved up here just under a year ago! I’m hosting Sweet NZ this month which is a monthly blogging link up for kiwi bloggers (or non kiwi’s living in NZ) to share Sweet Treats they have made from their blogs (old blog posts are fine), you should enter the slice 😉
Hi Amanda! This sounds super amazing! Will keep an eye out for information about Sweet NZ!
Also – very cool that you are from Wanganui! I was down there for about five years, but it feels so much longer. I really loved it down there, we moved up just before I started high school!