Flapjack

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Any good flapjack recipes?
With or without fruit. Ideally no nuts.
I'm going through boxes of the flapjack mini bites from supermarket as appear to be a pregnancy craving, and ds likes them too so thought it would be cheaper and maybe healthier to make myself?

Do a search on here for SoupDragon's flapjack receipe. It's divine and easy

Here it is! You can even leave out the sugar, it doesn't necessarily need it.

SoupDragon's flapjacks

250g porridge oats (the cheap type, not large ones),
150g Butter,
2 generous table spoons Golden Syrup
half a tin condensed milk,
100g demerera sugar

baking tin, no bigger than about 18cm x 28cm

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees c
2. Line the baking tin with baking parchment.
3. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the sugar and syrup. Keep gently heating and stirring until all is melted and mixed. If it starts to boil take it off the heat!
4. Add the condensed milk and mix. Bring to the boil for about a minute.
5. Remove from the heat and gradually add the oats, folding them in. All the oats should be coated, and the mixture quite dense, but still sticky. Don't add so many oats that the mixture becomes dry.
6. Pour the mixture into the tins and spread about so that it lines the tin to a depth of 2-3cm. Don't squash the mixture in, just spread it evenly.
7. Bake in the oven for about 15mins. You should take them out when they just start to go brown round the edges, don't leave longer than this. If they're still squidgy in the middle that's fine, they set on cooking.

I made it yesterday and added dried fruit for extra healthiness ! It's divine. Lovely and chewy.

Excellent thank you very much will give it a try this week.

I make a version of the recipe above with sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and dried mixed berries (I just stir in a big handful of each). Let's face it - flapjack is never going to be healthy, but at least these fill me up a bit more so I can stop at one slice