How on earth do you make soft flapjacks?!

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Last week's were too hard, today's are chewy and falling apart. Today I used 125g butter and sugar, 225g oats, 3 tbsp syrup , 180 degrees for 15 mins. I would like soft Ines for my 3 year old.

This was a MN reply (not to my post) not by me four years ago, love this recipe and I've never looked back.

Flapjacks? Did someone mention flapjacks?

250g porridge oats (the cheap type, not large ones),
150g Butter,
2 generous tablespoons (75g) Golden Syrup
half a tin condensed milk

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 syrup. Keep gently heating and stirring until all is melted and mixed.
4. Add the condensed milk and mix. Bring to the boil for about a minute. If I'm honest, I just bung the milk in at step 3.
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 cooling.

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This has always worked well for me, squidginess depends on how much golden syrup you choose to put in.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1148640/yummy-golden-syrup-flapjacks