Condensed Milk Slice - The 5 Cup Recipe

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This condensed milk slice recipe is one of the easiest recipes around. I call it the 5 Cup recipe.

All you need is 5 cups of 'stuff" and a tin of sweetened condensed milk, and voila you have the makings for a delicious slice...

Or if you prefer you have the makings of super-easy condensed milk cookies. Yes this recipe does either, slice or cookies, take your pick!

3 pieces of condensed milk slice stacked in a tower, sitting next to a small glass bottle of milk

Sweetened Condensed Milk Slice - 5 Cup Method

For this recipe, you need 5 cups  of 'stuff'. This recipe is very flexible, it's about combining textures so you can substitute many things

  • 1 Cup Crunchy Cereal: Rice bubbles, puffed rice, cornflakes, toasted muesli
  • 1 Cup Chewy Texture: Rolled Oats, Quinoa Flakes, Desiccated Coconut, ground almond
  • 1 Cup Dried fruit: Raisins, sultanas, chopped dates, chopped dried apricots
  • 1 Cup Nuts or seeds: Cashews, Almonds, Peanuts, sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds
  • 1 Cup Choc chips: Can be subbed for an extra cup of one of the above

You can also mix and match the 5 cups, it ½ a cup of raisins with ½ a cup of dried cranberries to make up to 1 cup like I said it is very easy and you canusually make up the 5 cups with whatever you have in the cupboard

5 cups of ingredients in a bowl: Cornflakes, Cashews, Oats, Raisins, Choc Chips

 

Once you have your 5 cups sorted, it is then just a case of stirring throw a tin of sweetened condensed milk. Could this condensed milk slice mix be any easier!

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Cereal, nuts, dried fruits and chocolate drops mixed together in a bowl

 What's your fancy? Condensed Milk Biscuits Or Slice

You have one more decision to make, you can either make this mix into quick-cook drop cookies or a slice. If you choose to make cookies do know they won't be perfect round cookies, they will be lumpy bumpy miss-matched cookies but they still taste good.

 

Condensed Milk Slice baked in a rectangular cake tin
Condensed Milk Slice

 

Condensed milk drop cookie on a baking paper lined tray

An alternative to lactation cookies

I have a specific lactation cookie recipe on my website, but when I am breastfeeding this recipe is of my go tos, it is so easy and you can include som many great milk boosting ingredients in it. You can also through in a few spoonfuls of brewers yeast, the sweetened condensed milk completely covers its bitter taste.

3 pieces of condensed milk slice stacked in a tower, sitting next to a small glass bottle of milk

Condensed Milk Slice

Yield: 24 Pieces

A Ridiculously easy slice recipe! You need a tin of sweetened condensed milk and then the rest of the ingredients are so flexible, you can make it as either a slice or cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup crunchy cereal
  • 1 cup oats or chewy texture cereal
  • 1 cup dried fruit
  • 1 cup nuts or seeds
  • 1 cup choc chips
  • 395g tin condensed milk
  • Optional 1-2 tablespoon flour

Instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 180 degrees C
  2. Place the 5 cups of dry ingredients in a large bowl
  3. The flour is completely optional, depending on the mix of ingredients you have chosen a little flour can help to bind things, if you have all lumpy ingredients with nothing small that mixes through, but if you have coconut, ground almond etc in the mix you don't tend to need the flour
  4. Pour in the tin of condensed milk, stir so that everything is covered in the condensed milk
  5. Decide if you are going to make cookies or a slice
  6. Cookies
  7. If you are making cookies,and you have a little flour to hand I would recommend adding a little to the mix
  8. Drop spoonfuls onto a lined baking tray or cookie sheet
  9. Bake for 5-8 minutes, you want them to be golden and a little bubbly, they will still be soft
  10. Cool on the tray for 5-10 minutes
  11. Slide baking paper off the tray and onto a cooling rack, cool completely
  12. Store in an airtight container, in the fridge if it's really hot and humid
  13. Slice
  14. Line a slice tin or cake tin with baking paper
  15. Press the mix into the tin so that it is even
  16. Bake for 15 -20 minutes until golden
  17. Cool in tin completely
  18. Slice into pieces and then store in an airtight container, in the fridge if it's hot

Notes

This recipe is very flexible, it's about combining textures so you can substitute many things

  • Crunchy Cereal: Rice bubbles, puffed rice, cornflakes, toasted muesli
  • Chewy Textrure: Rolled Oats, Quinoa Flakes, Desiccated Coconut
  • Dried fruit: Raisins, sultanas, chopped dates, chopped dried apricots
  • Nuts or seeds: Cashews, Almonds, Peanuts, sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds
  • Choc chips: Can be subbed for an extra cup of one of the above


If you are using light condensed milk you may need to add 1-2 tablespoon of flour to the mix

Both the cookies and slice will be soft when they come out of the oven but will harden as they cool

For the recipe to harden properly they need to bubble a little during the baking process

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 141Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 62mgCarbohydrates: 21gFiber: 2gSugar: 13gProtein: 4g

Please know this nutrition analysis is based on the ingredients only, this recipe has not been sent to a laboratory for independent testing

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7 Comments

  1. Love your recipes! What temp do you cook this slice at? It's not stated in the recipe. Many thanks...

  2. Is this slice freezer friendly? It looks drool worthy but I’m the only one in my home who can eat it.

  3. Hi Stacey, I’ve just discovered coconut condensed milk in the health food shop, so you can make this dairy free too!

  4. I absolutely loved this recipe, so delicious! Quick question though, I did the slice and it didn’t harden, was very soft after cooling down. I baked it for 20 minutes but guessing I didn’t cook it long enough. Can this be frozen? How long would it last in the fridge?

    1. yep, it sounds like it didn't quite cook long enough, cooking times can be tricky as so many peoples oven run slightly hotter or cooler then what the temp says. Yes it can be frozen. Stores in the fridge for 5 days