Healthy Chocolate Weetbix Slice

This Healthy Chocolate Weetbix Slice is your quick and easy no bake breakfast solution. With no added sugar, its sweetened with dates, apricot and coconut, and its easy to add your favourite protein powder for extra energy. Weetbix recipes just got a makeover!

Why Make a Healthy Weetbix Slice?

• There’s no oven and no baking required as it sets in the fridge
• Its high fibre, high protein and naturally sweetened
• Its got chocolate and peanut butter in it
• Makes 18 delicious pieces that are deceptively filling
• There’s no white or brown sugars, but its still perfectly sweet
• It keeps for a week in the fridge
• You can make it with or without the protein powder

This healthy weetbix slice is full of fibre and perfect as a grab and go breakfast option, as a pre workout snack, or even as a mid afternoon pick me up.

This is one of those easy no bake meal prep items that can be made in under 15 minutes, like these Chocolate Weetbix Balls, Chocolate Coconut Bars, and these simple Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars.

If protein powder is not your thing, you can leave it out or replace it with extra weetbix, or cocoa powder or oats. (See tips below)

Ingredients

Ingredient Notes

• Weetbix:  I used regular sanitarium weetbix, but you could also use gluten free weetbix, or the protein weetbix.  Just make sure to use a plain flavour. 
• Dates:  medjool dates are the best for this recipe as they are soft ands caramel like.
• Apricots:  I recommend good quality dried apricots.  My preferred brand is Angus Park.
• Protein Powder:  Any chocolate protein powder will work. I used Genetix Nutrition Lean WPI Chocolate Bomb Flavour Protein Powder and I buy it from Nutrition Warehouse in Australia. 
• Peanut Butter:  I recommend sugar free peanut butter, or natural peanut butter.  These are available from Coles and Woolworths in Australia.

Weetbix Slice is one of those Australian Classics but often they are often made with lots of white or brown sugar. So, I decided to make a naturally sweetened healthy weetbix slice. Whilst experimenting, I added my favourite protein powder and discovered how simple it is to turn a traditionally sugar heavy sweet into a protein packed, high fibre, no added sugar breakfast power house.

In terms of taste there is nuttiness, chocolate, peanut butter and fruity sweetness.

I love snacks that have protein powder in them because they keep you fuller for longer, help you to get your daily protein intake, are fun to eat, are portable, and help to keep cravings at bay.

How To Make This Recipe

1. Blitz walnuts and weetbix in food processor so the resemble a crumb.  Transfer to large mixing bowl, along with desiccated coconut.

2. Blitz dates and apricots in food processor, along with ¼ cup water until a paste is formed.  Transfer into the bowl with the weetbix/walnut/coconut mixture.

3. Add the rest of the Ingredients to the bowl. Melt peanut butter in microwave, until soft. Add peanut butter, cocoa powder, ground cinnamon, pinch of salt and ¼ cup of water to the bowl, using your hands and or spoon to bring the mixture together.

4. Press mixture into a large (rectangle) loaf tin, using damp hands to firmly press into all corners.

5. Make chocolate top: Make chocolate top: Melt coconut oil in microwave, and then stir through monkfruit sweetener and cocoa powder until dissolved. Pour chocolate over the base, cover and let it set in the fridge for an hour. Using a sharp knife, slice into 18 pieces, wiping down knife in between each one.

Protein Powder Substitutions

You can easily swap out the protein powder for any of the following, or you can leave it out altogether.

• Extra Weetbix: Swap the ¾ of protein powder with another 3 weetbix
• More Cocoa Powder: swap the protein powder for ¼ cup extra of cocoa powder for an double chocolate weetbix slice
• Oats: for extra chewiness, swap the protein powder with ½ cup of either quick oats or rolled oats

Variations and Add Ins

• Fruits: Swap dried apricots for the same amount of dried cranberries or sultanas
• Coffee Boost: add 2 tablespoons of espresso into the mixture
• Chocolate Top: Melting a sugar free chocolate bar and drizzling on top is a great shortcut if you don't want to make the 3 ingredient chocolate topping.
• Nut Butter: swap out natural peanut butter for cashew but butter or almond butter. Or Alternatively you could use a high protein peanut butter which are usually alongside the regular peanut butter and spreads in the supermarket.

Recipe Tips:

• Tin Size: I used a large loaf tin 28cm x 13cm.  You could also use a square tin that is around 20cm x 20 cm.
• Storage: Make sure to store it in an air tight container. This slice keeps for 1 week in the fridge. 
• Freezing: Freeze in an air tight container for upto 2 months. Its best to defrost naturally overnight in the fridge (covered), or covered at room temperature.
• My favourite Protein Powders: I love using a chocolate flavoured protein powder. I prefer to use Whey Protein Powders, and my favourite brands are Bare Blends and Genetix.  For this recipe, I used Genetix Nutrition Lean WPI Chocolate Bomb Flavour Protein Powder.  I would avoid using vanilla flavoured powder as it might clash with the other flavours.
• Mixture Too Wet? Add more weetbix and mix in by hand or in the food processor until you have a consistency that is sticky but not "wet"
• Mixture Too Dry? Add a table spoon of water at a time and blitz in the food processor, or additional peanut butter, or a combination of water and peanut butter.

Making a healthy chocolate weetbix slice without even turning on your oven or using stovetop could not be easier. This sweet treat and breakfast bar will keep you fuller for longer.

If you’ve grown up eating weetbix for breakfast as a kid, why not try making a chocolate weetbix slice that can not only double as breakfast on the go, but also as a pre workout snack.  It’s a double duty snack that’s easy to make, high protein, filling and sure to satisfy sweet cravings.

More Healthy Snack Recipes

• Chocolate Oat Granola Bars
• No Bake Chocolate Slice
• Easy Ginger Slice
• Coconut Bliss Balls
• Creamy Lemon Slice
• Coconut Jam Drops
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars