Flapjack Recipe
They last for days, they are cheap to make and they are good for you. What could be better than a great flapjack for that lunchtime snack!
Ingredients
Brown Sugar – 80g
Butter – 40g
Margarine – 60g
Oats – 250g
Salt – pinch
Banana – 1
Honey – 3tbsp
chocolate (optional)
Method
1. Melt the butter and the Margarine in a deep saucepan over a very low heat
2. add the brown sugar and 3 tablespoons of honey and mix well until you have a liquid substance.
3. Mix in the oats, if you find it easier add them in gradually stirring and covering the oats with the mixture
4. add a pinch of salt.
5. Mash the banana into a liquid pulp and mix into the oats (this will take a good few minutes to ensure that the banana is fully mixed in).
6. Get a knife and spread the oats evenly over a baking tray.
7. Place the baking tray onto the middle shelf in a preheated oven (gas mark 5, 220 C) and bake for 15 minutes, checking the progress regularly. Take out when the mixture starts turning a darker colour.
8. Stand for a minute or two, cut the flapjack into as many pieces as you wish
9. You may find it best to leave the flapjack for a few hours to cool down although you can eat them striaight away.
Tip. To make the flapjacks that little bit more special, drizzle melted chocolate over the top of them!
Serves: 15
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
69 Comments
I love the internet, you can search for a receipe that uses the ingredients you have at home and them make it straight away. I made double of this one for a coffe morning the next day, just as well as 1/4 got eaten in the tasting session. Great flap jack and I will make it again and again.
Not a big fan of bananas but all my friends loved them
Yum … this mixture tastes so good raw, lol, i bet the finished flapjacks will be even nicer!
Yummy!! So quick and easy yet so delicious. I substituted the banana for chopped mixed nuts and raisins. Really good- try some!
I made them for a christmas party at school. they were great!
ive just made some , maybe a little crumbly , but very tasty , i missed out the bannana but added coconut !
Thank you for all these recipes!
I am from Slovakia, 200 km near to Vienna (in Austria) and only the word “flapjack” I know only since 3 days from my new recipe book, written by 2 French women… I thougt, there were only german or swiss “muessli”bars from the supermarket in Europe and I´m very delighted at all the versions of flapjacks!!!
And what´s the best: they will be the fastest breakfast for my two sons (7 and 9 year old)which rather sleep then eat in the morning.
The taste of the first recipe they will tray tomorrow…
Please, would me write someone, if it´s true, that every britisch mother has her own variation? Is it really so popular and fancy?
Thank you for the answer(s)!
Fan of Jane Austen
Evijan
Great recipe !
Normally my kitchen exploits go horribly wrong but I am pleased to be able to say that this recipe worked really well ! If i can do it anyone can!
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Yummy smell of banana every time you open the tub you store them in – they didn’t last long and now I have ultimate kitchen kudos from my husband who pilfers them to take to work with him
Thankyou !
A response to Eva Kuma who wanted to know if every British housewife had her own variation of the flap-jack. I very much doubt it these days. I used to make them all the time when my children were small, and I did perfect it. . but now I have completely forgotten what to put in the pan. . .this is why I have come on to this great web-site. My friend makes the best ones I have ever tasted using all sorts of nuts and seeds and raisins – as well as dark brown sugar. But she is out at the moment and I simply have to make them NOW!
Perhaps the best way is to experiment and come up with your own. . .the golden rule is however, never ever ever buy them as they are a complete travesty of the real home-made version.
Christian
hahaha! I made these @ skool 4 my GCSE’s thanks 4 the recipie! I didn’t use the bannana though cuz it was a comparison between a “Box Recipie” and a “homemade” recipie, most people preffered these, more of them and more tasty!
p.s yes, I am a Dude taking a GCSE in food seriously, while most others see it as purley cooking, IT AIN’T, it is all sciency!
where can I find a conversion chart for recipes that contain grams so I can convert to USA english?
We have a conversion calc. here, where you will be able to convert grams (g) to Ounces (oz)
http://www.utterlyrecipes.com/?page_id=106
The only reason why each British housewife would have her own version of the recipe is because of the very strong tradition – I suspect with women everywhere – to put together a recipe from the ingredients they have available.
For instance – I had some left over muesli from my father’s last visit. I thought – this really has to be used up now – so I did a search for flapjack and on reading the recipe above thought – A-ha, 100g sugar or alternatives, 100g fats, and 250g of my muesli mixture …… I threw in some golden syrup (Treacle, in the USA, I think) instead of the honey and Voila! another variant is born!
When I remember this recipe I will only be remembering 250g, 100, 100g. though I will also have the ‘idea’ of banana to take with me for another day …..
Good recipe thank u
Thank you so much for the conversion chart location. It is wonderful and will allow me to use a number of UK recipes that I have found and want to try.
what if you don’t use margarine, can you make it with butter only?
I use a slightly different variation where I substitute the margarine with butter seems to work great. Also this is a fantastic way for a house husband to fill his day and keep the wife happy, she take a few into work for her lunch break and a tray of 15 does’nt last longer than a day
Personaly I add chopped cherry, sultanas and a pinch of cinnimon
what a fantastic recipe. My husband and I are trying to quit smoking and were looking for a somewhat healthy snack to munch on when we get cravings and this recipe seems perfect!
I’m printing this recipe (and all your variation suggestions) off as we speak and as soon as it’s finished I’m off to the supermarket.
I’m so excited I just can’t wait to try this recipe!
thus recipe is fab i love it its a great 1 4 the family
hey!!! i was wondering odes this recipie taste of bananas??