Chocolate Cornflake Slice & Cornflake Cookies

Joy, oh joy, I have my oven back in action!!  I have all my appendages back in action!!!

A rainy weekend, what is a girl to do (particularly when her oven has been out of action) - BAKE of course!!!

In the interests of school lunches I set to to make a few treats!!

I had purchased a packet of corn flakes at some point to make something - don't actually remember what now, so I thought I must make something to use these up - pulled out the ancient Women's Weekly Beautiful Biscuits Cookbook (circa .... well let's not admit!!!) went to the cornflake section - and there they were - they were called Weekender Biscuits - but I say into the new millenium - they are now Cornflake Cookies!!!!

Cornflake Cookies


Makes approx 24

125g butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup sultanas
1 cup self raising flour
2 cups lightly crushed cornflakes


Preheat oven to 180C.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add the egg, beat well.  Fold in the sifted flour and sultanas . mix well.  Drop teaspoonfuls of mixture into the cornflakes, roll lightly.

Place onto a baking tray that has been lined with baking paper (make sure you allow room for spreading).

Bake for approximately 20 minutes, or until golden.

Allow to cool on trays for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Now, I did not use all of the crushed cornflake crumbs - and there was still a lot left in the box, so I decided to convert an old favourite - Weet Bix Slice - into Corn Flake Slice!!

Corn Flake Slice

1 cup self  raising flour
1 cup crushed corn flakes
1 dessertspoon cocoa powder
1 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
3/4 coconut (I used shredded)
125g butter, melted

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl.  Press mixture into a slice (lamington tin).

Bake in oven (180C) for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven - allow to cool slightly - then ice with chocolate icing.

Chocolate Icing

1 cup icing sugar

2 tbs cocoa

few drops vanilla essence

20g butter, melted

1 tbs milk (plus extra if needed)

Coconut, extra

Place the icing sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and butter in a bowl.  Mix together, then add 1 tablespoon of milk, adding more if necessary to form a smooth paste.

The end result - I think Cornflakes make the slice even better - more crunch - this is now my new favourite!!

Now all is balanced in the world - when your oven works -you feel so much better!!  Plus I have been to the movies this afternoon - I saw Eat Pray Love - I think an odyssey of my own is in the cards!!!!

So Dear Readers what do you do when the weather turns bad - do you bake up a storm??? Or do you go to the movies and "escape" for a while??