Flapjack recipe - not nigella asap pl

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thats it

Oh coddy my mum has such a delicious one but I'm at work not home so can't get it.

Sorry

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

OK I'll call her, if she's at home will post it in a sec.

She's gone to find it, will call her back in 5 and then post it!

NoI cant believe it!!!

this is for my sons "healthy snack" at school (!) not processed seems to be the issue

Well it's full of golden syrup and butter so not v healthy but so delicious!

What about carrot cake?

carrots+ds1=

oats - good for bowels!!

due to allergy or due to carrots are yucky? How about banana cake then?

yukky! he will have flapjack - i dont think it will be wrenched from his hand by the playgorund mafia

OK here we go

4oz Butter
1oz Sugar
2 Tablespoons golden syrup
8oz rolled oats
half teaspoon salt

Beat fat and sugar till creamy, stir in warmed syrup (not hot!) Work in oats and salt.

Put into a VERY WELL GREASED tin with straight sides and press it all down quite hard.

Bake at Mark 5/ 375 F for 30 - 40 mins till firm and golden brown. Cut into finger shapes while warm but leave in tin to cool. Then take it out once cooled.

They are chewy and delicious and I want some NOW!

thanks will report back

and will chew loudly over the internet

i guess that if you added some raisins and chopped apricots they'd be a bit healthier as then they'd be eating some fruit too.

Hmm think it would ruin them myself.

it's a preference thing i guess. i'd rather eat them plain too. But if i was making them for my ds2 (ds1 won't touch flapjacks or any type of cereal bar) I would definitely add some fruit as hiding it is only way he will eat it.

Coddy, even my non vegetable eating DSs eat carrot cake muffins. Grate it really finely, add enough spice and they don't know it's there. I've done chocolate & courgette before too.

spice soupy? you are being adventurous!

ds2 is much easier btw

Mixed spice covers the taste of the carrot and also the colour helps mask the orangeness of the grated carrot

Malt loaf? That's what I used to give ds1 for a "healthy snack" (won't eat fruit). Lot easier than baking! Now he just starves as the fruit police give all the children a piece of free fruit and he isn't allowed an alternative.

P.S. What's wrong with Nigella's flapjacks? Or is it just Nigella per se?

SoupDragon - are those Susan Reimer's muffin recipes? DH enjoys chocolate and courgette muffin, but only if I don't tell him what they are! If I tell him he claims they're horrid. Now he looks suspiciously at any 'chocolate' ones I make, to try and decide whether he's supposed to like them or not!

Yes, I did say DH ... the kids love them all!

If she wrote the "fast and fantastic" muffin book (or something like that), then yes!

NIgella's flapjacks recipe doesn't work IME - and I dont' think it's just me - there was a think in the paper about it. They turned out like expensive sawdust