After my lovely roast chicken dinner last weekend, I was craving something sweet. As I had run out of eggs, I wasn’t able to bake a cake. So I had a look in the cupboard to see what I could make with the ingredients I did have: sugar, syrup, butter and oats.
Enter a childhood favourite…flapjack. {To my American readers, this is very similar to a granola bar but a much softer and moist, without any of the fruit and nut}.
Now you wouldn’t believe how difficult it was trying to find a decent recipe for flapjack online. After scouring various sites I settled on the recipe below.
Ingredients:
Chopped rolled (cheap porridge) oats 125g
Rolled (premium porridge) oats 125g
Margarine or butter 150g
Golden syrup 75g or 4 tablespoons
Sugar 75g (ideally brown sugar)
Instructions:
- Put the 150g of margarine, 75g of sugar & 75g of golden syrup in saucepan and heat until it is all liquid.
- Meanwhile line the baking tin with greaseproof paper.
- Mix all the oats into the liquid.
- Put the mixture into the baking tin & press flat.
- Bake at 175 °C (Gas Mark 4) for 25 to 30 minutes. Warning: the timing is tolerant but accuracy in temperature is critical.
- Slice into squares before it sets but leave in place in tin.
- Leave to cool and set.
Now these flapjacks came out soft and I actually prefer them more crunchy, so my brother (who is a chef extraordinaire) has advised that next time, I cook them for longer time at a higher heat.
You can make many variations to the traditional recipe – add chocolate chips, coat with chocolate on top, you name it, you can do it. As it is such a simple recipe, you can’t really go wrong.
With a cold glass of milk – yummy! Takes me right back to my youth! :)
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