English Mum's Peanut, coconut and chocolate chip flapjacks
A super yummy, quick and easy recipe for the most delicious flapjacks you will ever make. This versatile recipe will leave you craving more!
Ingredients
- 150 g butter or coconut oil/plant based spread
- 115 g light brown sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup or honey, maple syrup or vegan alternative
- 3 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
- 400 g porridge oats
- 20 g desiccated coconut
- 100 g dark chocolate chopped
Instructions
- Firstly, preheat your oven to 180 C/160 C fan/gas 4, and fold a bit of parchment or baking paper using it to line a brownie tin
- On a low heat, melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and peanut butter together in a large saucepan. Don't be put off by the peanut butter which kind of separates and floats around looking a bit gross - try to ignore that!
- When it’s all melted, add the oats and the coconut. Give it a really good stir so that the oats are all properly combined.
- Add 100g dark chocolate and mix through
- Press the mixture into a brownie tin that’s been lined with baking paper and smooth it over with the back of a spoon.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool before lifting out of the tin and slicing.
Notes
English Mum's Top Tips!
- Leave the chocolate quite chunky as the pieces will melt a bit when you stir them into the warm oat mixture.
- Not keen on peanuts? Not to worry, just leave it out!
- The base recipe can be adapted to make a multitude of variations. Instead of adding chocolate, why not liven up your flapjacks with nuts, seeds, raisins, dried cherries, Smarties, cinnamon, orange or lemon zest…anything you fancy really!
- As long as you keep the basic fat/sugar/oat proportions in this recipe the same you can add or substitute ingredients for what you have handy at home