Flapjacks
Oats bound with butter, golden syrup and sugar, baked in a tray and cut while warm. Thirty-five minutes and impossible to get wrong except in one way.
Photograph credit: Flapjacks by Alistair young · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
What Goes With It
- A mug of tea
- A flask on a walk
- Greek yoghurt
Photograph credit: Flapjacks Alba by Guy B. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · this resized copy is shared under the same licence
Making Flapjacks, Step by Step
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Heat the oven to 180°C / 355°F and line a 20 cm square tin with baking paper.
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Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup together in a pan over a low heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved.
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Take off the heat and stir in the salt and vanilla.
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Tip in the oats and stir until every flake is coated.
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Scrape into the tin and press down firmly and evenly with the back of a spoon.
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Bake 25 minutes for chewy flapjacks, or 28 for crisp ones. The edges should be deep gold and the middle still pale.
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Cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
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Score into 12 squares with a sharp knife, cutting right through.
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Leave in the tin for a further 1 hour, until completely cold.
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Lift out by the paper and separate along the score lines.
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Worth Knowing Before You Cook
Score warm, lift out cold.
Press the mixture down hard or they crumble.
Twenty-five minutes chewy, twenty-eight crisp. Pick one.
Keeping What's Left
Keeps 1 week in a tin and freezes 3 months.
Common Questions
How long does Flapjacks take to make?
10 minutes of preparation and 25 minutes of cooking, plus 1 hour of cooling in the tin, so allow 1 hour 35 minutes from start to finish. The recipe serves 12.
Flapjacks Nutrition Facts
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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