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Caramel slice

This low-cost, easy caramel slice ‘make-over’ recipe, is a great way to get the kids baking. This recipe is not only lower in sugar, saturated fat and energy than traditional caramel slice, it tastes amazing! It's guaranteed to be one of the family favourites.

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 50 mins, plus 2 hrs chilling
  • Serving: 16 people (1 piece per serve)
Ratings: 4.1
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • spray oil
    • 1 cup flour
    • 125g reduced-fat spread, melted
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 1 cup rolled oats
    • 380g can caramel condensed milk
    • 60g dark cooking chocolate
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Spray a 20cm x 20cm slice tin with oil and set aside.

    2 Thoroughly combine flour, melted spread, sugar and oats in a bowl. Press mixture in prepared tin and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

    3 Spread caramel over cooked base and return tin to oven for 15 minutes or until caramel is firm and starting to bubble and brown.

    4 Remove slice from oven and cool. Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl over boiling water and melt, stirring, until completely smooth. Drizzle or spread over slice then refrigerate until set.

    HFG tip

    Before cutting slice, dip the knife in hot water – it stops the chocolate from cracking.

    Original ingredients

    1 cup flour
    1 cup coconut
    1 cup brown sugar
    185g butter
    440g condensed milk
    2 tablespoons golden syrup
    125g dark chocolate

    What we did

    • Removed coconut and replaced it with oats
    • Halved sugar
    • Replaced butter with reduced-fat spread
    • Replaced golden syrup and condensed milk with Highlander Caramel condensed milk
    • Reduced amount of chocolate

    Traditional caramel slice (per serve)

    Total energy 1360kJ
    Total fat 18g (12g saturated fat)

    HFG caramel slice (per serve)

    Total energy 840kJ
    Total fat 9g (3g saturated fat)

    4 comments on Caramel slice

    1. Waipa District Council March 23, 2021 at 12:15 pm #

      This is far from healthy

      • Jen deMontalk March 24, 2021 at 12:59 pm #

        Thanks for your comment. A healthy diet includes treat foods. Our view is, and the evidence shows, eating patterns that are too restrictive and don’t allow for any foods people enjoy having as a treat are not sustainable or sociable, and often pull people into an unhealthy diet cycle or disordered eating patterns. The dessert and sweet recipes we create are lower in sugar, energy and saturated fat than traditional versions and often higher in fibre, too.

        • MARLENE November 10, 2021 at 4:07 pm #

          Totally agree, if you don’t have treat now and again, you will go off the track and it is so hard to get back on it. I enjoy my treats and look, forward to them

    2. MARLENE November 10, 2021 at 4:08 pm #

      Totally agree, if you don’t have treat now and again, you will go off the track and it is so hard to get back on it. I enjoy my treats and look, forward to them

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