Flapjack Friday

Hey hey! So it's Friday and we have flapjacks. 

When I say we, I mean I. (Although I fear there may have been a security breach.)

And when I say flapjacks, I mean sure, they look like flapjacks, but read on and make your own call on it. 

So, based on reading a few different ideas on the internet before I started, the recipe went something like this:

350g oats (organic)

100g butter (organic)

some honey (organic) - maybe 4 or 5 massive squeezes from a squeezy bottle

a shaking of mixed spice 

a quick crunching of rock salt from one of those grinder things 

a large banana (organic)

And the method was pretty much:

1) Melt the butter and honey in a saucepan over a low heat. Wonder about why I'm choosing not to put any sugar in despite all the recipes mentioning it. Question what the honey will do in place of the golden syrup that I've always used in the past.

2) Mash up the banana with a fork til it goes gooey. Eat some, but not all. Not by a long way.

3) Pour the hot melty buttery honey goo over the oats and add the salt and the spice.

4) Stir it all around and around until the oats get evenly coated and start to stick.

5) Add the banana and repeat 4) with extra stickiness.

6) Chuck it into a shallow baking tin and squash it all down with the back of a big spoon.

7) Bake in 200 degree C hot oven until the colour starts to change. (colour of the flapjacks not the oven)

8) Remove from oven and wait a bit before cutting it into pieces. 

9) Wait a bit longer before removing the pieces from the tin.

And the result is,....(cue drum roll, waving of arms, crashing of cymbals) flapjacks that aren't very sweet or very bananary, but are good and solid and sustaining if you're hungry ;o) They'd probably be lovely with lashings of hot custard.