Ready to take a trip back to one of the best parts of childhood – a visit to the corner store lolly counter? This colourful no-bake Lolly Slice is packed with your favourite lollies and topped with creamy white chocolate.
There are just five main ingredients, and the fridge does the setting. The hardest part might be choosing which lollies to include!
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Inspo from Across the ditch
Lolly Slice is a variation on New Zealand’s classic lolly cake. Traditional versions combine crushed malt biscuits, butter and sweetened condensed milk with colourful fruit puff lollies or Pascall Explorers. The mixture is shaped into a log, rolled in desiccated coconut and chilled until firm enough to slice.
This lolly slice recipe was inspired by one created by New Zealand blogger and cookbook author Vanya Insull, the creator of VJ Cooks.
With some Aussie Nostalgia added to the mix
Sweet memories of the corner store lolly counter are at the heart of this recipe. Remember those big glass counters? Behind them you'd find containers packed with freckles, snakes, cobbers, musk sticks, jaffas, milk buds, teeth and all those other favourites.
Then the best part. You'd start the careful business of deciding how to spend a few coins, pointing out which lollies should be stuffed into one of those little white paper bags. These were important decisions!
This Lolly Slice brings some of that fun into the kitchen. You get to put together your own colourful selection again, with plenty of room for the favourites you would always ask for at the counter!
Ingredients
You'll need just 5 ingredients for this recipe:
Plain sweet biscuits. Marie, Milk Coffee or similar plain sweet biscuits form the base. Crush them into fine crumbs so they mix evenly with the condensed milk, butter and chocolate.
Sweetened condensed milk. You will need 200 g for this recipe. It sweetens the base and helps bind the biscuit crumbs together.
Butter. Melt the 100 g butter before adding it to the biscuit crumbs. It adds richness and helps bring the base mixture together.
White chocolate. There is white chocolate in both layers: 85 g in the base and 255 g for the topping. That is 340 g altogether (or 2 x Milkybar family blocks).
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Mixed lollies. Choose a colourful mix of soft lollies and chocolates, such as milk bottles, snakes, jelly babies and freckles. Chop larger pieces for the base. You will need 330 g for the base and another 165 g for decorating.
Which lollies are you going to put in yours? I would love to hear what used to go into your corner shop lolly bag – tell me below in the comments.
See the recipe card at the end of this post for quantities.
How to make Lolly Slice
You will find the full quantities and step-by-step instructions in the recipe card below. Here is a quick guide to putting the slice together.
Start by greasing and lining a 27 × 17 cm slice tin, leaving baking paper overhanging the sides so you can lift the slice out later. Crush the biscuits into fine crumbs and place them in a mixing bowl. Stir in the sweetened condensed milk, melted butter and the melted white chocolate for the base.
Fold through the chopped lollies, then press the mixture firmly and evenly into the prepared tin. Spread the melted white chocolate topping over the base and arrange the remaining lollies on top, pressing them gently into the chocolate before it sets.
Refrigerate for at least four hours, ideally overnight, until firm. Lift the slice from the tin using the baking paper and cut into 15 pieces with a sharp knife.
Storing your Slice
Keep the pieces of lolly slice in an airtight container in the fridge.
The slice will keep for up to 10 days. But I'm not sure how it would last that long in any fridge if you know it's there!
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Lolly Slice Recipe
Equipment
- slice tin (27 x 17cm)
Ingredients
Base
- 250 grams plain sweet biscuits (Marie, Milk Coffee or similar)
- 200 grams sweetened condensed milk (200 grams = approx ½ a tin)
- 100 grams butter, melted
- 85 grams white chocolate, melted (85 grams = ½ a family block)
- 2 cups mixed lollies (2 cups = 330 grams)
Topping
- 255 grams white chocolate, melted (255 grams = 1½ family blocks)
- 1 cup mixed lollies (1 cup = 165 grams)
Instructions
Base
- Grease a slice tin (around 27 x 17cm) with butter and then line with baking paper, leaving extra on sides (to pull the slice from the tin once set).
- Crush the biscuits until they resemble fine breadcrumbs using a rolling pin, chopper or food processor. Place into a large mixing bowl.
- Add condensed milk, melted butter and melted white chocolate and stir to combine.
- Chop mixed lollies into small pieces and add to the mixture. Stir through the mixture until evenly distributed.
- Press the biscuit mixture into the prepared slice tin and smooth with the back of a metal tablespoon.
Topping
- Pour the melted chocolate over the base and spread evenly with a spoon or spatula.
- Arrange mixed lollies on top of slice, pressing them gently into the chocolate before it sets.
- Place into the fridge to set for at least 4 hours, ideally overnight.
- Once set, remove slice from the tin by lifting the edges of the baking paper. Cut into 15 pieces using a sharp knife and store in the fridge.
Jan says
About 75 years ago, aged about 5, I was waiting for my father in the local post office and admiring the 5 sorts of lollies they had behind glass. We never got lollies and the post office lady knew our family did not have money for lollies, but that day the assistant had counted out some 'ripe raspberries' out for some other luckier child and knocked the box onto the dusty unsealed wood floor. The post office lady asked every one to step back and then asked me to help her pick them up, which I did. Then she wrote on a brown paper bag 'wash before eating' and put all those red raspberries in the bag and screwed the top closed and handed them to me. I assume she had checked with my father as he just said to me that I had to share when we got home. And as long as they lasted, our mother would count out one each for us kids each day and then carefully rinse them before we ate them! The only bought lollies we ever had - and we actually didn't buy them...