Blackberry and Apple Flapjack by Beverley Glock

Food guru Beverley Glock has teamed up with online supermarket Ocado, to produce family friendly recipes that parents can make with their children.

Blackberry and Apple Flapjack

Flapjack is a good food for school lunch boxes and snacks, made with oats which are slow release carbs plus helping towards your Five a Day with apples and blackberries. Easy to make, supervise younger children if you allow them to use the stove top otherwise let them prepare the fruit and weigh out the ingredients. If you can’t get hold of jumbo oats then double the quantity of rolled oats.

Ingredients

120g Butter
80g Demerera sugar
2 tbsp Golden syrup
125g Rolled oats
125g Jumbo oats
1 Large bramley apple, peeled and grated
250g Blackberries, washed

Makes 12
Total time required  50 mins
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180c/gas mark 5.

2. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan over a medium heat.

3. When melted, remove from the heat, add the oats and grated apple and mix well.

4. Mash the blackberries gently with a fork.

5. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line with baking parchment (this makes it easier to get the flapjack out when it’s cooked).

6. Press half the flapjack mix into the base of the tin, smear the mashed blackberries gently over the top and top with the rest of the flapjack so the blackberries are sandwiched in the middle.

7. Bake in the centre of the oven for 25-30 minutes until nicely browned. Aga – roasting oven, shelf on bottom set of runners for 15-20 minutes. This flapjack may take longer to cook than normal flapjack due to the moistness of the added fruit, it will also remain moist when cool.

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