This delicious fruity flapjacks recipe is ideal if you only have small amounts of raisins and other ingredients. I'll also talk about substitutes you can use.
This week, we've been working on de-cluttering the kitchen cupboards as part of a Spring clean.
We started on the pots and pans, tupper ware, then the baking cupboard.
Who doesn't have a few random ingredients left over that they haven't thought about using up for a while? And this is how my fruity flapjacks recipe was born.
🛒 Ingredients
Simple Fruit Flapjacks Recipe
There's very little effort needed, or fancy ingredients for this fruity flapjacks recipe.
As long as you have your rolled oats as the star of the show, you can be rather flexible.
So I'll talk you through any substitutes you could use instead.
Substitutes You Can Use
If you don't have the exact ingredients for my fruity flapjacks recipe, then don't fret. There are many other alternative ingredients you can use if you have them.
Here's a list where you can tweak things:
- Butter: swap for 100g of the oil of your choice
- Golden syrup: swap with honey or agave syrup
- Soft light brown sugar: Any type of fine sugar, or briefly blitz regular cane sugar in a blender
- Raisins: you could use a mixed peel, dried apricots, cherries, sultanas, desiccated coconut or chopped dates etc
- Add extras: why not add additional nuts and seeds for extra protein if you want a bit of bite?
Easy Steps for Fruity Flapjacks
It's so easy to assume making flapjacks is effort. I know, because I've been putting it off all week because I've been "busy". So hopefully these easy steps will help you realise.
P.S, you can find the recipe towards the bottom of this page!
- Preheat your oven at 190 degrees Celcius
- Melt together your butter and syrup on low heat. You don't need to boil it!
- Meanwhile, weigh your oats, sugar and desired dried fruit
- Line a 20cm squared baking tin
- Combine the oats and sugar with butter together, then press down in the tin
- And bake for 20 minutes, then score and leave to cool. DONE!
Tips For Baking My Fruit Flapjacks Recipe
- Baking this fruity flapjacks recipe is quicker than you think and will set and harden when cool
- Avoid over baking so you don't burn your raisins, which cooks quicker than the oats
- Store in an airtight container for up to five days
- You can treat this as a base recipe and add optional spices you wish, such as a ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon, allspice, etc
More Oat Recipes You Might Like
- Slow cooker porridge oats
- Baked Carrot & parsnip oats
- Microwave baked oats
- Oat pancakes
- Blender Oat Yorkshire Puddings
- Oat Toad in the Holes
- Gnocchi pasta with green pesto
- Thicken stews
You can find more traditional recipes here.
Printable Recipe For Fruity Flapjacks
Fruity Flapjacks Recipe
These fruity flapjacks are easy and delicious, with using a pinch of ingredients from your baking cupboard.
Ingredients
- 200 g rolled oats
- 100 g butter
- 70 g golden syrup
- 60 g raisins, or other dried fruit of your choice
- 45 g soft light brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon, optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees celcius.
- In a saucepan, melt together the butter and golden syrup.
- Then add the remaining ingredients and stir well.
- Grease and line a 20cm square baking tin.
- Transfer the fruity flapjack mixture to the lined tin and press down.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until slightly golden.
- Remove from oven and score into 8 or more servings with a knife and leave to cool and set.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
8 peopleAmount Per Serving: Calories: 265Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 91mgCarbohydrates: 38gFiber: 3gSugar: 17gProtein: 4g
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Tash
Trying this recipe for the first time. The flapjacks are in the oven as I type! I had been searching for a fruity flapjack and this piqued my interest as it didn't melt the sugar with butter and golden syrup. Highly unusual. Was this a mistake Vikkie? Well I guess I will soon find out being the first to comment lol. Will update with the baking result:-)
Trish
Made these and they were absolutely delicious 😋 so easy to do! There's just one MAJOR problem- they were eaten by everyone so quickly, I had to make 2 more batches!!