Decided to take a second swing (sports metaphors – who knew!!) at the previous flapjack recipe as I wasn’t too happy with the banana flavour in the previous batch (although others did rather like the banana). Like I mentioned in the previous post I thought the recipe I used last time would stand up to a lot of playing around with and it appears I was right. To be fair flapjack recipes are pretty basic and simple.
I always prefer butter in the place of margarine so I switched out the Butter and Margarine ratio’s and increased the butter by 10g as I wasn’t including the banana. I also let the Butter, Sugar and Syrup mixture cook a little longer to caramelise the sugar slightly.
To recap then the ingredients are the same but the Butter is 70g and the Margarine 30g but everything else is the same as is the technique except cook the sugar, butter, syrup a little longer. If you prefer your flapjacks more simply flavoured and as originally made then these are much more down your alley.
When I woke up this morning I was thinking about possible items to bake for a fair stall I am thinking of doing in the near future, and flapjacks came to mind as something easy, cheap but delicious and so I made these this morning.
INGREDIENTS
80 g Brown Sugar
40g Unsalted Butter
60g Margarine
250g Oats
Pinch of Salt
1 Medium Banana, mashed
3 Tbsp Golden Syrup
1. Melt the Butter and Margarine
2. Add Sugar and Syrup and keep on heat until mixture is liquid (not long a minute or two), make sure you keep the heat low enough not to burn the butter
3. Add the oats and a pinch of salt, mix to combine
4. Mix the mashed banana into the oats making sure that its well combined
5. Add the mixture to a foil lined pan and bake for 15 minutes until the edges turn a darker brown.
I washed up whilst they were in the oven but got a nice burn on my arm when I took them out.
Whilst these were very nice I wasn’t the biggest fan of the added banana but then i do prefer a really simple flapjack. I want to play around with this recipe. Ill be making it with just butter mixing less to create a more crumbly texture. I might also melt the butter separately in the microwave and add this to a slightly caramelised sugar mixture to get more flavour. I would also experiment with different sugars and different oats
