Flapjack help please!

[BiddyPop]

I have in the past tried to make flapjacks and failed miserably. (Usually hard lumps that fell apart as soon as you touched them).

We all like flapjacks, the M&S ones in a bucket, or Costa have big ones with fruit, or various others.

But we'd like to be able to make them at home, put in some dried fruit ourselves, and ideally throw together a batch in a hurry on Friday nights for sailing and outdoor stuff at weekends, as well as school and work snacks.

Does anyone have a good recipe?

And any foolproof tips?

(I am a reasonable general cook and baker, I don't have time to bake frequently but I can make decent cakes and meringues when I make the time - just fail miserably at flapjacks).

Thanks so much.
Biddy

There was just a thread about this: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3156870-Flapjack-recipe

Soupdragon’s recipe (on that thread) is foolproof and delicious.

Thanks Unimaginative!!

I also tried Soupdragon's recipe and it was awesome

Was going to post to say Soupdragon’s recipe but two poeple have already beaten me to it! I don’t add the extra demerara. Failsafe and delicious.

If you don't have condensed milk handy, then a successful alrternative is:

50g sugar
50g syrup
100g butter or marge
200g oats
a very generous 50g of anything you'd like to add

Melt fat, sugar and syrup together. Add oats and additions e.g. dried apricot + sunflower seeds; dried cherries; crystallised ginger etc etc.

bake at 180 degrees until pale gold. Squish down with a fork after it comes out of the oven.

I make these weekly for 2 active teens' lunchboxes.