I’ve been promising to send my sister-in-law my flapjack recipe for years. I normally make them by eye and consistency but today I poured the ingredients out into a bowl on scales and wrote it all down. I make a batch of them every couple of weeks or so – we have one with a cup of tea in the afternoon or when we don’t fancy a big dessert after our evening meal.
I usually make them with dried fruit, nuts, seeds, dessicated coconut or crystallised ginger. Anyway, here’s my recipe, Flora, better late than never!
Cakes & Bakes: Flapjacks
Ingredients
- Basic recipe
- 175 g vegetable oil
- 30 g butter
- 125 g honey or golden syrup
- 350 g rolled oats
- optional additional ingredients any one of the following
- 50 g dessicated coconut
- 25 g crystalised ginger
- 50 g dried fruit currents, raisins, sultanas, cranberries, blueberries, dates, figs or a mix of all of these
- 50 g seeds and/or nuts linseeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnut pieces, pecan, pieces, crushed hazelnuts, flaked almonds or a mix of all of these - the nuts are better if pre-roasted in the oven for a few minutes until lightly browned
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2
- Put the oil with the butter into a large saucepan on a low heat. When the butter has melted, add the honey / golden syrup to the oil mixture and stir to mix
- Turn off the heat, add the oats (and optional ingredients) and mix well
- Put the mixture into a 23cm/9inch shallow square cake tin and flatten down firmly with the back of a serving spoon
- Put into the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until the top is lightly browned
- Allow to cool in the tin then cut into squares or finger-shaped portions
Oh I do like a nice flapjack, and I'm loving your addition of crystalised ginger in particular. Must make some myself, yuuuuum. Thanks so much for entering them to the Four Seasons Food challenge.
I love flapjacks. They are so delicious and moreish. I also love the idea of adding ginger – bet thats really goos indeed! Thanks for entering Four Seasons Food.
Thanks so much for entering this in to tea time treats! Karen
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Yum! My mom is the same way, she rarely writes down recipes so my sister and I are always begging her to measure and send them to us. Love the idea of adding coconut. Thanks for sharing at Pin It Thursday, you were featured this week!
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