Home made flapjacks….

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.