Recipe – The Ultimate High Energy Flapjacks
You can adapt the recipe by adding in other dried fruit, seeds, nuts, and spices to make these even more varied and flavoursome. I particularly like pumpkin seeds and chopped crystallised ginger added to the mix.
Ingredients
- 200g butter
- 100g brown sugar
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- ½ tbsp black treacle
- 300g porridge oats
- 100g raisins
- 75g soft-dried figs
- 50g soft-dried apricots
Method
- Set the oven to 150°C or 140°C for fan-assisted oven. Place the shelf in the middle
- Stick a big pan on the scales and measure in the butter and brown sugar
- Heat the pan on the hob until the butter and sugar are all melted
- Add a tablespoon of golden syrup and half a tablespoon of treacle to the mix
- Add the porridge oats and your fruit(s) of choice and mix together well
- Line a shallow medium-sized rectangular tin with baking paper—grease the paper and pour in mixture. Flatten it down to an even thickness with the back of a spoon
- Place in the oven for 20 minutes
- Once done for 20 minutes, remove and divide up with a knife as desired; then leave it to cool and set
- To store: place the flapjack bars in a sealed tub—they should last for a couple of weeks
Great recipe Tim.
ReplyDeleteMade them Saturday to take on a ride on Sunday. They were so good, I only just had enough to take with me.
Well done mate.
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Great recipe. I've been using it since I first found it a few months ago. They sustained me through my first 100 mile ride and all the training up to it. Good work Tim.
ReplyDeleteI have used this recipe a few times and have altered some ingredients to suit me . Its very good as it is but variety as they say .thank you Tim
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt's my mum's old fashioned remedy - but a beaten egg added to the cooled mixture will solve all 'break-up' problems. I tweaked the ingredients adding 250g of fruit, nuts and seeds plus a tablespoon of cinnamon. Went down a treat with the lads :)
ReplyDeleteI had to google "black treacle" - but now I have to ask does "½ black treacle" mean half a tin, i.e. approximately 227 g if it's a tin of "Lyle's Black Treacle"?
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Half a table spoon of black treacle
ReplyDeleteis it ok to use honey instead of black treakle?
ReplyDeleteExtra golden syrup (another half a tablespoon) instead of black treacle works equally well. I have also made these adding chopped stem ginger from a jar (two to three balls) and using some of the ginger soaked syrup from the jar instead of the black treacle. Great recipe Tim.
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