Weet-bix Breakfast Cookies

Do you know where I get a lot of my recipe inspiration from? The supermarket. There are so many new 'ready made' products coming on the market and I can't believe that people actually buy them when they are so easy to make at home with your basic pantry ingredients. These sort of things have been on the market for a while but I nearly 'flipped my lid' when I saw them. Breakfast biscuits (cookies)! Like what? Cookies for breakfast? Now that's something I would really like and I'm sure my kids would too. (In fact I think their father buys them but I wouldn't buy them in a 'pink fit'.) The latest company to now make cookies for breakfast, believe it or not, is Wee-tbix. Weet-bix are already a biscuit if I'm not mistaken. We used to have them as a kid, smothered with butter and jam. Oh well. It gave me inspiration to make them and they were a hit with the kids.

You can pretty much add anything to the base recipe. Things like chocolate chips, dried fruit, nuts or even other leftover cereal (how ironic).

Once you've got the dry ingredients mixed together, it's just a matter of mixing the wet ingredients together and combining.

I used my small ice cream scoop to place small amounts of mixture onto the baking pan and I was expecting them to spread a bit more than they did. Next time I'll flatten them out a bit. These were a real hit with the kids for breakfast, lunch boxes and afternoon tea but I don't think, personally, that I can go past a good old bowl of Weet-bix and milk (for breakfast, lunch or dinner).

Weet-bix Breakfast Cookies
(based on the recipe from the Sanitarium website)

• 4 Weet-Bix, crushed 
• 2/3 cup rolled oats 
• ¾ cup plain flour 
• 100g brown sugar 
• 3 tablespoons butter 
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup 
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 
• ¼ cup boiling water

1. Mix together Weet-Bix, rolled oats, flour, and sugar until well combined. 
2. Place butter and golden syrup in a small saucepan and heat gently until melted. 
3. Mix bicarbonate of soda and water together then pour into butter mixture. 
4. Add to dry ingredients and stir to combine. 
5. Place tablespoons of mixture onto baking trays lined with baking paper. 
6. Bake at 160°C for 15-20 minutes. 
7. Cool on trays before serving.

Note:  Add things like chocolate chips, chopped dried fruit or nuts to the dry mixture before mixing with the melted butter mixture.