Forest fruit flapjacks

Happy Saturday! This weekend's baking endeavour involved trying to find a recipe that uses ingredients I actually have in the cupboard - and flapjacks fit the bill! This is a pretty simple recipe with just 5 main ingredients - though if you don't have berries you can leave them out for plain flapjacks, or add your own extras! 

I like these because they remind me of the ones my school used to sell at lunchtimes, so they're a bit nostalgic! Also, they don't require flour which is great at the moment due to the shortage.

I also want to add my weighing scales aren't working at the moment, so I had to use cups and convert them to grams, so bear that in mind!

This took around an hour to make, and made 12 medium flapjacks.

Ingredients

• 370g oats
• 175g flora, or another vegan dairy free butter alternative
• 4 TBSP golden syrup
• 100g brown sugar
• 400g mixed berries (I used frozen raspberries, strawberries and cherries!)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
2. In a saucepan, add the berries and cook on a low heat until a fruit syrup forms (you may need to mash any large pieces of fruit up once they've softened!)
3. In a seperate pan, add the sugar, flora and golden syrup. Heat on a low heat until the butter has melted and the mixture has combined.
4. Add the butter/sugar mixture to the oats, and combine until the oats are coated.
5. In a greased (or lined) baking tray, spread half of the oats so they cover the bottom of the tray.
6. Add the fruit syrup as the next layer.
7. Finally, top with the remaining oat mixture.
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes (the longer you bake them for the more likely they'll hold together better, but don't burn them!) until the top layer looks brown and crisp.