Flapjacks are a great after school snack for kids and even a takeaway breakfast for them and the adults.

One is quite enough for a healthy, filling snack. You could even have it as breakfast on the go.
These are thinner than your average flapjack. The thicker ones mean you may eat more in one mouthful, Taking smaller, more frequent mouthfuls would take longer and be subsequently more satiating.

How Has the Sugar Been Reduced?
Less syrup has been used by adding alternatives, such as bananas, raisins and dried apricots, which provide more nutrients, but still satisfy a sweet tooth.
Recipe Tips
Don’t worry about mashing the banana too smoothly. It will melt into the rest of the ingredients in the oven. A few lumps of banana will also help to give that homemade texture.

Flapjacks
Ingredients
- 3 Apples
- 150 ml Cold Water
- 2 Bananas
- 8 tablespoon Maple Syrup
- 400 g Oats
- 4 Dried Apricots
- 4 tablespoon Raisins
Instructions
- Set the oven at Gas Mark 4 or 180C.
- Peel and core Apples.
- Chop the Apples and put them in a large pan (big enough to hold the Oats later) with Cold Water.
- Cook on a low simmer for about 15-20 minutes, until the Apples go mushy and the Water has been absorbed. Add a little more water, if it is absorbed before they go mushy.
- Mash Bananas.
- Add Maple Syrup and the mashed Bananas to the Apples and continue to heat on a low simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat.
- Chop Dried Apricots into small pieces. The more pieces, the wider their distribution throughout the mixture.
- Add Oats, Raisins and the chopped Dried Apricots to the pan and mix until all ingredients are combined.
- Cut a piece of parchment paper a little bit bigger than a baking tray (the inside measurement of the tray used for this recipe was 32cm x 22cm - bigger or more trays if you have increased the servings for this recipe).
- Lay the parchment paper in the tray and put a dollop of the mixture in each corner. This weighs the paper down to make it easier for tipping the rest of the mixture in.
- Tip the rest of the mixture in and spread evenly to fill the baking tray. Press down to compact the mixture.
- Bake in the middle of the oven at Gas Mark 4 or 180C for 35 minutes.
- Cool in the baking tray and cut into 12 individual flapjacks.
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