Merry Good Friday everyone! Don’t you just love a long weekend?! And Easter is the best of them because CHOCOLATE. And HOT CROSS BUNS. And MINI EGGS. You get my point.
If, however, like me you’re following Slimming World, it can test your willpower and so I thought I would use my time wisely this weekend and just cook lots of cakes. I’ve already baked the lovely Slimming World Chocolate Cake today but wanted to try something different.
I found this recipe on Pinterest, it was something someone had posted in a Facebook group last year, and I thought it sounded delicious. It is hopefully (I haven’t eaten any yet as I write this) Hot Cross Bun-like – it contains sultanas and mixed spice, and if you cut the loaf into 12 slices, it is 2.75 syns per slice. Talk about precise!
Why not test this recipe out yourself this weekend? It’s great for this time of year and even the sun is shining!
Ingredients:
2 Weetabix
110g sultanas
150ml skimmed milk
150ml water
110g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon mixed spice
15g artificial sweetener
1 egg, beaten
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C Fan/Gas Mark 4.
- Put the Weetabix and sultanas in a bowl. Pour the milk and water over the top and leave to soak up all the liquid.
- Stir in the flour, mixed spice, sweetener and beaten egg.
- Spoon the mixture into a 450g lined loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 1¼ hours, until cooked. Top tip – line with non-stick baking paper as opposed to greaseproof paper – it shouldn’t stick then. (I learnt the hard way.)
- Cool on a wire rack before serving, then cut into 12 slices.
Add water and milk to Weetabix and sultanas – leave to soak. After 15 minutes or so, add sweetener, flour and whisked egg. Stir.
Bake for 80 minutes (depending on your oven) at 180°C/160°C Fan/Gas Mark 4.
Serve! Crunchy on the outside, moist in the middle!
I’ve made a short video for you so you can see exactly how to make it!
Syns:
As I said above, I’ve worked out the syns to be 2.75 syns per slice. Here’s how I worked it out:
Self-raising Flour: 28g = 4.5 syns (110g in cake) = 17.5 syns
Sultanas: 28g = 4 syns (110g in cake) = 16 syns
Total = 33.5 syns
Divide by 12 slices = 2.75 per slice.
For the mathematicians out there, feel free to correct me, I promise I won’t be offended. (Although I will wonder why you’re wasting the time when you could be eating this cake), and I’m also basing this on the two Weetabix being your Healthy Extra B and the milk being part of your Healthy Extra A. So I think I’ve been pretty accurate.
UPDATE: Since writing this post two years ago in 2016, you now have to syn sweetener I’ve been informed, so please amend accordingly.
Results:
The smell coming from the oven was amazing! My oven is really old so I originally cooked the cake for 75 minutes, but had to put it in again for another 15 minutes. It came out crunchy on the outside and moist in the middle. The perfect cake! It reminded me of the bread pudding my Mum used to make when we were kids, so it felt a little nostalgic. This would be lovely served warm, but maybe syn a little butter and spread that on top – delicious!
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Absolutely lovely .
So glad you liked it Marian 🙂
Hi iv just tried this and was lovely can you freeze it or how long can it keep fresh for x
I’ve never frozen it sorry, it doesnt’ last that long! But I certainly don’t see why you can’t freeze it x
Do you think this would work if you substituted the milk for Alpro Chocolate Soya (still HExA) and used chopped choc buttons instead of the sultanas? Maybe vanilla essence instead of spice? TIA! x
I think you can try all sorts of variations so I don’t see why not. One way to find out 🙂 And if it’s rank, just give it to the dog lol. (It won’t be I’m sure.)
I know it’s only a comment, but you can’t give dogs chocolate as your suggestion above!! – please be careful!
I make this alot, one slice is quite filling. I dont put the sweetener in, its really not needed, and you dont get the after taste sweete er leaves.
I think you might be right about being able to take the sweetener out … sultanas are sweet enough.
I made it with and without the sweetener you can’t tell the sweetener isn’t in itxx
How many syns please
Hi Judith – all the syns are detailed in the blog post … Divide by 12 slices = 2.75 per slice.
really tasty Ive just made one and added a bannana cant wait to taste it
Once cooked how long does it keep for , can it be frozen successfully ? Can it be made in to individual buns
Hi Sandra – I’ve never frozen it so I’m afraid I can’t answer that one (although I don’t see why not?) and yes, it would be lovely as individual buns I think 🙂
Just seen this but how many sins if you have to count weetabix as I usually use heb for my breakfast.
Hi Stephanie – one Weetabix is 3 syns I believe.
Ok thankyou
Hi I have just made this and eaten a slice, still warm, yummy! Although I think will try it without the sweetener next time as it is quite sweet. Unfortunately I didn’t read Pauline’s comments before baking it!
Made this today for a family dessert, they had no idea it was slimming world until I told them.
So glad you liked it!
Just made this and ate a slice while still hot it’s scrummy.
Just made this I added banana and blackcurrant cordial.and used less milk.when it was warm out of the oven,sprayed it with butter fry light and put a sprinkling of canderel on the top .very nice .thanks for the recipe.christine slimming world member.11 and a half pounds to go to target weight x
made this in the week, agree with other posts, it doesn’t need all of that sweetener and i have a serious sweet tooth, i even used 10g sweetener after reading the replies and think ill do 5g next time, for me it was more the aftertaste of sweetener i didn’t like otherwise really yummy, even hubby liked it.
3 year old didn’t though lol
Thank you Kate, I can’t wait to try your recipe, it looks yummy..
I’ve just put mine in the oven
can’t wait, clock watching now lol
How did you get on Roger?
I put 6 glacé cherries in too so not sure of the sun value but it was really good x
Oooh that sounds lush!
I don’t like dried fruit how and what could I substitute the fruit for please…..
What about chocolate or carbo nibs/buttons?
this is my favorite recipe it tastes just like a hot cross bun
It does doesn’t it?! Glad you liked it.
Just pulled this cake out of my oven and couldn’t wait for it to cool down had to try some ,wow it tastes Amazing just like a hot cross bun !
Yummy
I thought sweeteners had syns now?
They do. I wrote this post two years ago. I’ve now added a note to reflect the new change.
Will be making weetabix cake today for food tasting at slimming world tomorrow morning.