Easy White Christmas Slice Recipe (no copha)

White Christmas slice is a staple in our family festivities at Christmas time. Seven ingredients – A medley of pistachios, glace fruit, tart cranberries, coconut, and rice bubbles encased in a white chocolate slab of goodness. It’s an Aussie Christmas classic!

The secret to a classic white Christmas recipe is using really good ingredients and no copha! I know that traditional recipes use copha in their recipe, however, I’m not a fan. Instead, we’re going to use good-quality chocolate. My favorite white chocolate is Lindt. Its flavor and creaminess by far make it my favorite, plus it’s super easy to melt in the microwave!

What is white Christmas?

It’s an easy no-bake slice that just screams the festive season. Kind of like a rocky road, except full of all the Christmas glace fruit, mixed with rice bubbles and encased in creamy white chocolate.

Here is why you are going to love this recipe for white Christmas slice

An essential part of the holiday season, white Christmas slice is the easiest no-bake festive slice around.

Let’s face facts. Christmas is a busy time for many of us. I love how this recipe for white Christmas slice is super quick to whip up, and a great recipe to get the kids in the kitchen this time of year. Many small hands make light work!

It’s also a total winner as a homemade gift. Slice it up and pop it in a preserving jar or clear cellophane wrap with a ribbon around the top and a gift card. Job done!

Ingredients you’ll need

• Pantry staples –  fresh, crunchy rice bubbles or rice krispies, shredded coconut. You could also substitute desiccated coconut for shredded.
  
  
  
• Glace and dried fruit – glace pineapple, glace red cherries, dried, cranberries. Have a favorite glace fruit? Feel free to swap out my favorites for yours. My sister is obsessed with glace apricots in hers!
  
  
• Pistachios – if you can get your hands on slithered pistachios, their vibrant green color just makes this slice pop! However, this doesn’t change the flavors and you can use slithered or roughly chopped pistachios and still get the same result. You could also use slithered almonds.
  
  
• White chocolate – I use Lindt white chocolate.

Equipment

Aside from a large bowl and wooden spoon, you will need a slice tray to form the slice into. For this White Christmas recipe, I used my biscotti pan lined with parchment paper. (Its dimensions are 30.5 x 14 x 5.1cm)

The details

1. Line a slice pan with baking paper, ensuring the paper goes well above the top of all the sides. Give it a light coating of baking spray. Set aside.
   
   
2. Roughly chop up all the fruit and nuts. In a large mixing bowl combine the chopped fruit and nuts along with the coconut.
   
   
3. Add the rice bubbles and mix thoroughly.
   
   
4. In a separate, heatproof bowl, melt your white chocolate either over a pot of simmering water (double boiler method) on low heat or in the microwave in 20-second bursts. When completely melted, pour the melted chocolate over the dry ingredients and give it all a really good stir to completely coat the fruit, nuts, and rice bubbles.
   
   
5. Spread the chocolate mixture into the prepared tin and lightly press down to make an even layer on top. Pop in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
   
   
6. Slice and eat!

A little word on melting chocolate

While I always recommend tempering your chocolate, this easy recipe doesn’t require you to (yay!) Just pop it into a heat-proof bowl and nuke it in the microwave in 20 second increments (stirring in between) until your chocolate is glossy and fully melted.

Now let’s take this up a notch

How about we make this into a centerpiece for your Christmas festivities? Like, say, a White Christmas Chocolate Wreath with a big bow around it? Or individual White Christmas Crackles as the star in a homemade sweets box? Just add spoonfuls of the mixture into paper patty cases instead of using a slice tin and leave to set as per the recipe above. Now you’ve got individual desserts ready to go!

How to store White Christmas

Slice it up and pop it into an airtight container then back in the fridge until needed. It lasts a good week in the fridge, although truthfully, it never lasts that long in our house! One minute it’s there, the next…

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• Baked Biscoff cheesecake slice

Happy festive baking!

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