Easy Granola Flapjack Recipe (2024)

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 & melt the butter in a large saucepan over a low heat.

Stir in the sugar and golden syrup and turn off the heat.

Stir in the granola and seeds, dried fruits, and/or nuts.

Line a baking tray roughly 20cm x 20cm with baking paper or a reusable oven liner and tip the mixture in. Spread it evenly and press the mixture into the tin using the back of a spoon, ensuring you spread right up to the corners. Cook in the oven on the middle shelf for 15 minutes.

Top Tip

Leave your flapjacks to cool properly before cutting them into squares.

Substitutions

• Healthy - for a healthier granola flapjack, use sugar-free or low-sugar granola. The texture may be slightly different as not all sugar-free varieties form the granola into the typical granola clusters.
• Gluten Free - you can still enjoy these granola breakfast bars on a gluten-free diet. Gluten-free varieties of granola are widely available and use gluten-free oat flakes.

Variations

Instead of dried fruits and seeds, you can add in some of the following to add new flavours. Be careful to not add more than 100g / 3.5 ounces in total to the recipe or your granola bars won't hold together well. You should also chop any dried fruits, berries, or nuts to about the size of a sultana.

• Seeds - sunflower seeds as well as pumpkin seeds.
• Dried Fruits & Berries - sultanas, raisins, dried apricots (chopped into small pieces), candied peel, dried cranberries or craisins as well as dried prunes, pineapple, papaya, dates, mango or strawberries.
• Nuts - walnuts, pecan nuts, toasted almonds. Chop them into small pieces.

Green Tip

These breakfast bars are a great opportunity to use up any leftover dried fruits, nuts, and seeds you have in your cupboard.

Equipment

All you need to make these granola flapjacks is :-

• A large pan
• Weighing scales
• A baking tin roughly 20cm x 20cm / 8 inches x 8 inches or similar surface area.
• Baking parchment or greaseproof paper or a reusable liner.

Storage

Store in an airtight container for about one week. If you are in a very warm environment, you may need to store them in the refrigerator. If this makes them too hard, just leave them at room temperature for about one hour.

Flapjacks can also be frozen for 2 - 3 months.

Top tip

Make sure you press the mixture down firmly into your baking tray, ensuring you have pressed it into all four corners.

Sustainability

These granola oat bars are perfect for using up smaller quantities of dried fruits, nuts, and seeds and helping to reduce food waste. All of the ingredients in this recipe, granola, dark brown sugar, dried fruits, nuts, and seeds as well as golden syrup are available to buy from Fairtrade. Fairtrade is an international organisation that works with small-scale farmers to pay a proper living wage, improve their living standards, invest in their communities, and work with them to adapt to climate change. Look out for the Fairtrade Logo.

What is Granola?

Granola is most commonly eaten as a breakfast cereal. It's made of ground oats, honey, or another sweetener and added nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. Because it is already sweetened, I've reduced the amount of sugar in this recipe. Using granola rather than rolled oats in this recipe gives a nice crunchy texture.

What's the difference between a Flapjack Bar and a Granola Bar?

Flapjack and granola bars are both made from oats. Granola bars have more added ingredients such as nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. A flapjack bar has a slightly softer more chewy texture.

Easy Granola Flapjack Recipe

REALMEALDEAL

These easy Granola Flapjack bars are the perfect snack with a lovely chewy texture and added bit of crunch.

Nutrition per serving

Calories: 304kcalCarbohydrates: 39gProtein: 3gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 30mgSodium: 13mgPotassium: 187mgFiber: 2gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 348IUVitamin C: 0.2mgCalcium: 50mgIron: 1mg

The Nutritional Values are computer generated estimates based on industry standards and are provided as a helpful guide only.