Soft Apple Flapjacks (Flapjack)

Member Name: takeachance

Product:	Flapjack
Date:	15/02/09 (214 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to make, kids love them, store for a week or so

Disadvantages: No bowl to lick!

These Apple Flapjacks are great to make with the kids. Ill definately be making these this school holiday with my little one as although she starts to get bored with most toys she never gets bored of helping in the kitchen!

Personally Ill start with a shopping trip to the supermarket and shop for the ingredients with my daughter. Incorporate this with your weekly shop as they wont moan so much as they are on a mission too! I give my daughter her own shopping list to hold too! This takes a little longer to go around the store but it is so much more pleasurable!

You will need:

2 eating apples (Personally I like the sourness in a granny smith but perhaps use a gala or a golden for a sweeter taste.)

6oz butter
6oz demerara sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinammon
2 oz sultanas
8 oz porridge oats

To cook you will need approx a 7 x 11inch tin, baking parchment, a saucepan, knife, spoon.

Heat your oven to gas mark 3.
Grease your tin and place a rectangle of baking parchment inside.

Peel, core and cube the apples.
Put these in the saucepan with 1oz of the butter and cook on a low heat until the apple is soft.
Then add the remaining butter, sugar, syrup, cinnamon and sultanas, still on the low heat until the butter has all melted.
At this point remove from the heat and add the oats.
Stir everything together and empty out onto the tin you prepared earlier.
Smooth it all out with the back of a spoon.
Bake for 25 mins . The flapjacks should be a dark golden brown and still soft.
Leave to cool for a few minutes before cutting into pieces.
I cut this size into about 14-16.
Stored in an airtight tin these keep well for around a week if they last that long!!

The only downside to these is that my daughters favourite part of cooking is licking the bowl which is not available in this recipe!

Summary: Try keeping the kids amused this schoolbreak!