It’s a fairly tough week - 8 miles with intervals, a nine miler general aerobic, 5 miles tomorrow and then 13 on Sat. Just did an easy 3 miles with some friends this morning, finished the proposal for my new book (Go Faster Food for Kids) and then spent a couple of hours in the kitchen having fun. I’ve thrown together a delicious-looking smoky black bean beef and chorizo chilli which we’ll have tonight with some fresh salsa and basmati rice, plus some marmalade flapjacks. Well I have to say they are a bit irresistible! The marathon training hunger has really set in with me and the old appetite is going great guns – all this running, combined with the freezing weather….I need flapjacks!
These flapjacks are surprisingly light, with a slightly chewy texture from the caramelised marmalade. I used my own home made marmalade which is quite bitter, so if you make them with shop-bought marmalade, it will probably be best to use something like Frank Cooper’s dark marmalade. Whatever you use, make sure it is thick-cut, with lots of lumps of oranges in it.
Ingredients
- 225g porridge oats (I use Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Unrefined Jumbo Oats)
- 75g unsalted butter
- 2 Tbsp demerara sugar
- 2 Tbsp golden syrup
- 2 Tbsp thick cut marmalade
- Heat the oven to 180 C. Lightly grease a small baking tray 20cm x 20cm.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan, then add the sugar, syrup and marmalade, cook on a very low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
- Add the porridge oats and stir well to combine. Turn off the heat.
- Transfer to the baking tray and bake in the oven for 20 mins until golden brown.
- Cool in the pan. Cut the flapjacks into about 12 squares after 5 minutes or so. Remove from the tray when cool if you can wait that long….
Go Faster Food for Kids??? Never mind the kids, I’m making some of these for me! Nom Nom!
These are fantastic..flapjacks are my favourite treat, I`m a personal trainer so all my running customers have sampled these after a good workout. Everyone who has sampled them went home to make them. Brilliant.
I have just checked my cupboards and happily confirm that I’ll be making these tomorrow!!! I’m one of Charlotte Thompson’s customers and she rewarded me with a flapjack square (straight from the baking tray, still warm) after a run earlier today…. YUM! I was a very happy bunny :0)
Had an awesome run with Emma and Charlotte this morning – it was so cold that our breath was freezing on our eyelashes lol. Have just made these flapjacks with my kids and they are fantastic!
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