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promoting the Whispering Sand only. Thank You

Yum, flapjack! Those soft chewy squares that lull you into a false sense of healthiness as you chew

through them, it must be the oats. Anyway, making it is a little tougher than you might imagine but

only because you have to melt the ingredients together and pour a hotish greasy liquid over oats.

Sadly this means it’s not one for the kids to make unsupervised, but that doesn’t mean they can’t

help from a safe distance1.

The main essential tip is to ensure that all the oats are thoroughly coated in the gooey buttery mix

before you continue because otherwise the flapjacks crumble to pieces and make a real mess of the

carpet (the voice of experience once again there folks).

What you need:

Making

1. Weigh out correct quantities of the ingredients and preheat oven to 1800C

1 This distance is for the responsible adult to judge. My own recommendation is from in the next room.

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Toasting Marshmallows

Toasting Oats

Making Flap Jack

Making Toast

Danger Comparison

A Seagull’s Favourite Snack:

Flapjack

WARNING!

Making Flapjack is extremely dangerous

and should ONLY be attempted by an

Adult. And a responsible adult at that!

Whilst you might feel grown up trying it

on your own you might never feel

anything again if you get burned. You

have been warned!

Ingredients 4 oz Soft Margarine 10 oz Porridge Oats 3 oz Caster Sugar A table spoon of honey 3 oz Sultanas 3 oz chocolate chips!

Equipment Spoons to stir with A fork Scales A spatula or cutter A bowl A baking tray A cooling rack A pan

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2.Place the margarine, sugar and honey into a saucepan

3. Warm over a low heat, stir constantly with wooden spoon until you have a runny golden mixture.

4. Remove the golden mixture from the heat and leave to cool a little. Whilst the gooey golden

mixture is missing pour the oats into a bowl then add the chocolate chips and sultanas. Give them a

quick mix together.

5. Once the golden mixture is cooled pour over the oats stirring all the time to make sure all the oats

are covered. If they don’t get covered they won’t stick together!

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7. Just to remind you the oven should now be preheated to 1800C . Once you are completely sure

that all the oats are well and truly coated pour the mixture into a pregreased baking tray.

8. Spread all the oat mixture out so that it covers the bottom of the pregreased baking tray and

press them flat using a fork. This stops the flapjack falling apart (the greatest challenging the

amateur flapjack maker).

9. Place the baking tray in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes. Check occasionally to make sure it

has not burned (the second great challenge facing the amateur flapjack maker. Cook too long and it

ends up unpleasantly crunchy!).

10. Leave baking tray to cool on a wire rack.

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11. When almost cold use a spatula to cut nice sqaures into the flapjack.

12. Remove from tray and feed to a hungry little octopus!

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If you enjoyed making this recipe, or even if you didn’t, head over to

www.iankenworthy.com where you can find more things to make!

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