Im new to baking -- New as in never having done it since leaving secondary school some 20 years ago so please excuse the kitchen fire....
Im looking for a tried and tested flapjack recipe if any of you are willing to share. Ive already had a google around and have bought some ingredients
and i have adapted this here recipe for mega portions as I did go overboard buying 20 odd different types of seeds and dried fruit to put in
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Instructions are pretty clear, its a case of knocking out the first batch, taste testing and deciding if it needs more of one thing or less of the other. My parents want a nibble too so naturally ive had to cut down some of the syrup and sugar thats going into the mix. Im toying with the idea of cutting out some of the butter too but thats what the taste test is for.
At the moment my own recipe is an extra 50% of most things on that recipe linked apart from the syrup and sugar which i have cut down on...
180g butter,
150g Sugar
2&1/2 TBS Syrup
375g rolled oats
100g mixed seeds
100g mixed fruits
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And yes, I hear you say
"Why not use honey instead of Syrup??" -- Sadly mum likes to talk
a lot about how hard life would be with diabetes and to cut down all sugar (while she herself throws back shots of Lucozade and raisins...) so sweet things like honey and syrup are generally banned in this house unless its for her own approved consumption. Please dont ask me why... She'll say something is too sweet then I'll come back from a ride to find shes eaten all of what she was complaining about. She is just quirky like that
-- Its what i have to live with.
Please o'baking gods of CC, bestow upon me your knowledge and expertise.
::EDIT::
I didnt actually go with any of the suggested measurements
175g butter
90g sugar
1tbs syrup
230g oats
100g mixed seeds
125g mixed fruit - sultanas, apricots & cranberry's
Turned out quite well.
