As the lovely people from Green and Blacks sent me some cooking chocolate to use, it would have been rude not to use it to make something yummy lol.
We decided to make some flapjacks because Miss Frugal loves them but the ones she likes with the chocolate topping on are 89p in the shop round the corner.
Apart from the chocolate, we had everything else in so they were surprisingly cheap to make.
Ingredients
80g brown sugar
100g butter or margarine
250g oats (we used the value porridge oats leftover from our reindeer dust at Christmas)
2 tablespoons golden syrup
Approx 100g bar of chocolate (we used 2/3 of a bar of Green and Blacks milk chocolate cooking chocolate)
Miss Frugal is getting really good at weighing the ingredents out herself now, everything has to be so precise. Me however, I’m happy with a couple of grams either way, which could explain a few of my disasters lol.
You need to melt the butter in a pan over a low heat, this is the first time I have let Miss Frugal help with anything that involves the hob. Can you see one of her hands is behind her back, thats because I was worried she would touch the hot pan.
When its melted, stir in the brown sugar and the golden syrup until it looks like a brown paste.
I transferred it into a mixing bowl at this point to avoid burnt fingers on the pan but if there are no littlies helping you could do the next bit in the pan to save washing up.
Add the oats into the bowl and stir it up so all the oats are coated in the sticky mixture.
Don’t forget to taste the mixture as you go along to make sure it taste OK!
And if you get told off for eating the mixture, why not just eat plain oats out of the bag!
Spoon the mixture into a baking tray and bake for about 15 – 18 minutes at 22o c. When it starts to go a bit brown, it’s done. My baking tray was bigger but large amounts of the mix disappeared when I went for a wee. Strange that!
Leave for about 10 minutes and then score the flapjacks into portions.
When it’s a bit cooler, pour over your melted chocolate (I wanted a lovely drizzling effect so didn’t melt enough to cover whole top, Miss Frugal wanted to cover it all – so we have flapjacks that look like we forgot to do the edges!) and then leave for at least six hours before eating.
Please note the hair tied firmly in place to keep it out of the flapjacks lol.
Added, exactly six hours later: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The flapjacks are lovely and squidgy and the chocolate is gorgeous.
Hi Jo – apparently she only wears the apron when her doll is helping us and last night baby Isabella had been naughty (!) so she got send to be and wasn't allowed to come out of her bedroom!
I will be over to your new blog in a minute and will amend my blogroll when I get chance too…. I like your new name.
I hope everyone else like the flapjacks. I wonder if they would freeze well, for kids packed lunches?
mmmmm they look scrummy
Yummy, I am also going to be making these with my littleones. Cheers!!
oooo it's been ages since I made flapjacks – You do tempt me to make so many naughty things LOL But what I need to know is where is the lovely Miss Frugals new apron, bless her?
BTW I am still having problems with my blog (see post) and so I have now taken the step to not post anything more to this blog, and have imported it to another web address. I would love you to continue to follow me. If you would like to, please un-follow CornishBeach Brummie and start to follow the new site on:
http://www.surfchick100.blogspot.com
A new name for a new year as I had so much fun bodyboarding last year, however I have left my banner as Cornishbeachbrummie for the time being to prevent too much confusion,
my card making one is now:
http://www.card-craftbyjo.blogspot.com
as it was easier to have them both on the same dashboard and not risk the same thing happening to that one too.
I look forward to seeing you on the other side….. or blog as the case may be LOL Take care Jo x