In the US, we call them “bar cookies”; in the UK, they are “tray bakes”. Here in Australia, anything you can mix up, spread in your standard square or rectangular pan, and stick in the oven for 30-40 minutes is known as “slice”. (As in, “That looks yummy, I’ll have a slice!”) And at the moment, it’s my default baking option, because pretty much the only baking implement I have in the TUK is a 9” x 13” (23 cm x 33 cm?) metal pan that I bought myself, rationalizing it as follows:
- You can never have too many
baking/roasting pans.
- If I go more than two weeks without baking, bad things will happen.
It
has turned out to be very useful, both in expanding my TUK possibilities and in
preserving my mental serenity during transition. It gets used on a near-daily basis for savory as well as sweet
cooking, and it has prompted me to expand my definition of what in my standard
baking repertoire can be re-cast as a ‘slice’. I’ve already used it for congo bars, yogurt cake, and flapjack, along with the fridge cake I posted the other
day. Now I’m trawling my own archives to see what else I can repurpose. I’m
thinking these would all be good options:
- oat-fruit bars (ok, technically these are already a slice, I just haven’t made them in a
long time)
What
else? Recommendations? The only stipulation is that it must be able to be sliced
neatly and eaten out of hand - suitable for coffee mornings, knitting groups, and
playdates.
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