Tropical Fruit Flapjack

Tropical Fruit Flapjack

My partner, Craig's favourite thing to eat, in the whole wide world is flapjack. Thankfully it's also a fantastic way of sneaking a bit of fruit in for the children I am childminding. This recipe comes from www.lylesgoldensyrup.com and it's called Classic Flapjack, however I have added dried tropical fruit. I also changed the butter to Stork baking margarine.

Ingredients;

• 150g Margarine
• 75g Soft brown sugar
• 3tbsp Golden syrup
• 250g Porridge oats
• 100g of chopped dried tropical fruit and coconut (This just came in a bag and contained pineapple, apricots, mango, raisins and coconut)

Method;

• Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4. Grease and line a shallow 20cm square tin with baking parchment. I two used silver disposable trays 18cm - 11cm each
• I melted the margarine, sugar and golden syrup together in a saucepan. I took it off the heat and added the chopped fruit and then stirred in the oats.
• I pushed the mixture down evenly into the trays and baked in the oven for 25 - 30 mins
• I removed them from the oven and cooled for 10 mins before cutting into squares whilst warm in the trays. I waited till the flapjack was completely cooled before I tipped them out of the trays and cut again.

And it was a complete success!