Ginger flapjacks

Ginger flapjacks

Try an oat bar with a difference - our version is flavoured with coconut and has a soft and spicy ginger topping

Difficulty and servings

Easy

CUTS INTO 16 squares

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 35 mins

Method

  1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Butter and line a 20-21cm square baking tin with baking parchment. Gently melt together the butter, sugar and syrup in a large pan. Tip in the oats, flour and coconut, and mix well. Press the mixture into the tin to flatten evenly. Bake for 30 mins until golden and crisping.
  2. To make the icing, put the butter, icing sugar, syrup and ground ginger in a small pan and heat gently, stirring, until all melted together. Pour straight over the flapjacks, scatter with the diced ginger and cool in the tin.

PER SQUARE

502 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 31 g, saturated fat 19g, fibre 3g, sugar 35g, salt 0.6 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2012.

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  • 16 October 2012

    Nurse83 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made these to take to work, my work colleagues absolutely loved them!! Definitely will be making them again but I need to get a deeper tin as the icing ran off, probably needs a square cake tin.

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  • 17 October 2012

    Frantic Flapjack rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Have you seen the amount of butter in this recipe?? It's a heart attack on a plate. I made them without the icing and reduced the butter to 250g (which is still a huge amount) and added some chopped crystallised ginger to the mix. Tasted really good but this recipe does not need icing.

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  • 22 October 2012

    cbeebies rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    This flapjack is good, but it works well with much less butter (I used 250g). I added chopped crystallised ginger too. The tin size quoted is rather small. A 30 by 20cm tin (or thereabouts) is better. If you want to ice it, then halve the quantities given and your icing to flapjack ratio is about right. good for a treat, but won't be making this too often due to cost (all that butter) and calories

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  • 23 October 2012

    Alladell rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Good can think of no reason to improve

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  • 07 November 2012

    Janet rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I agree with the other comments about the amount of butter, I almost decided to stop making when I realised I needed more than one pack of butter for the flapjack alone. The recipe is delicious though but cut into more than 16 pieces. The tin size is too small I used a 23cm square tin and only just got the icing in and cut into 30 pieces and these are still a generous portion. The recipe appears to tell you to add the icing straight away, I made this mistake and it all soaked into the flapjack, allow the flapjack to cool before adding the icing if you want the nice layer shown in the picture but probably agree, this recipe really does not need icing.

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  • 12 April 2013

    terrie1975 rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    After reading the comments on here, I used 250g of butter in the flapjack mix. These were really good but very rich. I agree that I couldn't really detect the coconut and maybe a little more wouldn't go a miss as it could balance out the butter content. Will definitely make again but with a little tweaking.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

CUTS INTO 16 squares

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 35 mins

Ingredients

  • 350g butter , plus extra for the tin
  • 200g light muscovado sugar
  • 5 tbsp golden syrup
  • 200g porridge oats
  • 100g whole oats
  • 140g plain flour
  • 50g desiccated coconut

FOR THE ICING

  • 175g butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 4 tbsp golden syrup
  • 2 tbsp ground ginger
  • few chunks crystallised ginger , diced
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PER SQUARE

502 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 31 g, saturated fat 19g, fibre 3g, sugar 35g, salt 0.6 g

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