Blueberry and pistachio muesli slice
Cookbook Challenge: Week 29
Theme: Blue
Recipe: Blueberry and pistachio muesli slice
From: Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake”
For the Cookbook Challenge this week, the theme is “blue”. And for the Challenge, I present “FAIL SLICE”. What is fail slice? It’s when you forget a vital ingredient when baking. Yes, major fail.
But let me tell you what it’s supposed to be. I baked a slice for this week’s theme – a blueberry and pistachio muesli slice. Sounds okay, right? The original recipe used cranberries, which I substituted with dried blueberries to fit with this week’s theme.
It all started out fine. It’s the easiest recipe to put together. Basically, it just involves melting sugar, butter and honey in a saucepan, and then adding the berries, oats, pistachios and self-raising flour. Oh yeah, unless you’re me, and you just leave out the flour. Because why would a slice need flour?
Funnily enough, when I mixed it all together, I thought to myself, “I wonder if this is supposed to have flour in it?” Did that make me reread the recipe? Nope! I told myself it didn’t, and put it in the oven!
In fact, I didn’t realise my error until after the slice had been in the oven for almost 15 minutes and I realised it didn’t quite look right…. and it was kind of burnt around the edges… and oh. Wait, what was that about flour again?
I am not sure what it tastes like. I’m sure if it’s made properly, it’ll taste great! Someone try it and let me know!
And since it’s blue week, I’ll leave you with a picture of Cookie Monster cupcakes. They didn’t quite turn out the way I imagined them in my head – I certainly didn’t imagine them looking so demented (and these are the good ones, seriously). The cupcakes are these vanilla cupcakes with the addition of crushed oreos in the batter and the face is made from fondant, with a mini chocolate chip cookie shoved in the mouth. Cookie, cookie, cookie!
See previous Cookbook Challenge posts here.
Update: see the round up for this week at My Food Trail.
Blueberry and pistachio muesli slice
Adapted from Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake”
125g butter, chopped coarsely
1/3 cup (75g) firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1& 1/2 cups (135g) rolled oats
1/2 cup (75g) self-raising flour
1 cup (130g) dried cranberries
1 cup (140g) roasted pistachios, chopped coarsely
Preheat oven to 180C and grease a 20cm x 30cm slice pan. Line the base of the pan with baking paper, extending it a couple of cms over the side.
In a medium saucepan, heat the butter, sugar and honey over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Tip the mixture into the prepared slice pan and press firmly into it.
Bake for about 20 minutes and cool in the pan before cutting.
Celeste @ Berrytravels
June 6, 2010 @ 10:02 pm
Adore adore adore the cupcakes! I wish I had half your talent at these sugar arty cupcakes. Major luv.
p/s: I don't think they look demented. I mean, come on, cookie monster looks pretty demented himself… so it looks rather like him.
penny aka jeroxie
June 6, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
I have my failures too. BUt the cupcakes ARE adorable!
mademoiselle dΓ©licieuse
June 6, 2010 @ 10:40 pm
"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me…"
Don't worry, I've left egg out of cake batter before! =p
Anh
June 6, 2010 @ 11:09 pm
ooh. It happened to me before, forgetting ingredients when cooking/baking.
Never mind, there's next time! π
Hannah
June 6, 2010 @ 11:44 pm
Is it weird that I think that bar looks (and sounds) delicious? Sure, I'm a little in love with pistachios right now, but if you think abotu it you really just made a lovely granola in a compact format. I'd be more than willing to crumble that over my porridge in the morning and Go. To. Town.
Foodessa
June 7, 2010 @ 8:41 am
My nephew would absolutely go crazy for your cupcake monsters. The blue color is stunning.
BTW…you may have forgotten the flour in your bars…I have once forgotten the baking powder in a cake once…and scratched my head trying to figure out what the heck I could have done wrong???
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Flavourful wishes, Claudia
imasugarjunkie
June 7, 2010 @ 1:59 pm
Those are seriously cute Cupcakes!
I think we have all forgotten major ingredients at some point in our cooking life!!
Chanel11
June 7, 2010 @ 4:22 pm
I seem to forget eggs mostly – that never turns out well
and I personally think ur cookie monsters are cuties
Maria@TheGourmetChallenge
June 8, 2010 @ 5:53 pm
lol *slaps thigh* You forgot the flour, realized it but didnt go back to check, seriously sounds like something I would do!!
Last summer, after being totally stressed out, I wasted 3 boxes of couscous. Each time I kept putting double the amount of water needed and end up with clag, after returning to the shops for the third time I thought it was probably a good idea to read the box. I've never made that mistake again, always buy multiple boxes of couscous now. That'll teach it!
Cookie monster are way adorable! I love your work with fondant!
Agnes
June 8, 2010 @ 9:52 pm
Celeste: Oh, you're right about Cookie Monster looking pretty demented! Perhaps I did okay! π
Penny: Thanks doll! I suppose we need to fail sometimes to learn, right?
mademoiselle: Oh I've left eggs out of cakes too. Not just once or twice… but several times!
Anh: If I forget something it's normally eggs. It was the first time for flour!
Hannah: I would have tried eating the slice but it seemed REALLY REALLY hard. I could post it to you if you're keen though. π
Foodessa: Hehee, thanks for sharing your baking mistake!
imasugarjunkie: I guess no one always churns out perfect dishes when cooking & baking all the time!
Chanel: what is it about eggs that make them so easy to forget? I've forgotten to add eggs before as well!
Maria: You must be rubbing off on me! Can I blame you the next time I forget an ingredient or don't follow instructions properly?
Hannah
June 8, 2010 @ 9:58 pm
Okay, maybe I'll pass… π
April @ My Food Trail
June 17, 2010 @ 2:48 pm
Yikes, don't you hate ingredient leave outs?! Sometimes it still works, other times it doesn't! Lucky you don't do it often! π
Those cookie monster cupcakes are so CUTE! You can totally tell it's the cookie monster!
Agnes
June 18, 2010 @ 2:01 pm
April: I actually forget to put eggs in things fairly often – I don't know what it is about eggs that make them so forgettable! π