Weetabix cake

Mixing bowl - This one is made from 100% stainless steel, can be multi-used and is easy to clean. See more details here at Amazon .

Loaf tin - This extremely durable and non-stick one will take the fuss out of baking! See more details at Amazon .

Wire rack - a must for letting your baking cool down - see more details here at Amazon .

This recipe has hardly any fat at all, and plenty of fibre. Slices of this loaf are delicious toasted and spread with butter.

Kids love helping crush the Weetabix, but it can lead to lots of mess! To avoid this, pop the Weetabix into a freezer bag, squeeze out as much air as you can, and seal it up. Then hand it to your little one and let them have fun bashing and squishing it to break up the Weetabix. Older kids can also help with weighing and measuring the other ingredients, and stirring it all together, making this a perfect bake for rainy family weekends.

If you're following Slimming World , or just want to cut the calorie content even further, you can always swap the sugar for a sweetener like stevia or xylitol. There's already plenty of sweetness in the dried fruit, so this still tastes totally yummy with sweetener instead of sugar. You can also opt for a lower-fat spread on the toasted slices of cake.

Storage tips

Your Weetabix cake will keep in an airtight container for up to a week. You can also freeze it; we suggest freezing individual thin slices in separate freezer bags; then you can just pop a slice in the toaster straight from the freezer when you want a quick snack.

This loaf would work well with any mixture of dried fruit, such as raisins, sultanas, dried apricots, glace cherries ... chop the fruit up if it's in large pieces. It tastes great with banana, too!

Instead of Weetabix, you could also try making this cake with shredded wheat, or any other similar breakfast cereal; just check the sugar content if you're on a slimming kick.

Want to get decadent? Why not make this with chocolate Weetabix instead? You could also melt a little dark chocolate (in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water), and drizzle it over the top of the finished cake.

Weetabix is vegan, so if you want to make a plant-based version, just swap the milk for oat or almond milk, and the egg for 3 tablespoons of aquafaba.