Hello folks It is becky here I am one of your self taught hosts on my virgin kitchen and
welcome today I am showing you how to make these amazing Christmas flapjacks, now these
Christmas flapjacks are amazing, in the middle we have a mince pie flapjack filling then
we have coated it in chocolate orange chocolate yeah we coated it in melted chocolate orange
and then drizzled white chocolate on top of that and finished it off with holly leaves,
little green holly leaves and berries.
I have not actually tasted it yet, I think I need to try it right now, that is really
good now it is time to show you how we did it.
Grab a saucepan and plonk in the butter followed by the golden syrup of if you do not have
golden syrup you can use corn syrup that is actually fine, I did blast the golden syrup
in the microwave for 30 seconds just to loosen it up a bit then poured into the saucepan
nice and easy put the saucepan on a low heat and just give it a gentle stir until all the
butter is melted and you are left with this gorgeous syrup butter mixture bubbling away
with the mixture done take the saucepan off of the heat, then add in the mincemeat, zest
of 2 oranges, your raisins and about half a teaspoon of cinnamon mix that so it is all
combined and looking delicious, it was smelling just like Christmas, pour that mixture into
your bowl of rolled porridge oats make sure they are rolled oats though you do not want
the cheap ones as they can taste a little like sawdust, not nice, give that a good mix
together make sure your oats are completely covered in the mixture a bit like covering
them with self tan get them all nice and golden those oats.
To make our flapjacks into a Christmas pudding shape I found these two small bowls that look
like they could be mini Christmas pudding if you turn them upside down perfect, but
if you do not have small bowls like this, the next best thing would be a cupcake tray
this is also the perfect size look, so you will be able to turn them upside down and
they will look like Christmas puddings spoon the mixture into the tin of choice, make sure
you level off so it is nice and flat you do not want any wonky Christmas puddings or it
will be a bit like that bit wonky.
Bake them in the oven for 20 minutes but do keep your eye on them as they can brown pretty
quickly once out the oven allow the flapjacks to cool down fully to get nice and firm which
is what we want to get them out the tin nice and easy.
Once cooled down place on a wire rack and lift off the tin, you will be left with a
perfect Christmas pudding shape.
To make the holly I used some ready made coloured icing, rolling 2 small red balls out and then
I carefully cut the green holly leaves out which was really fiddly just to get two good
ones, it was fiddly but worth it.
I melted up some milk chocolate then poured in just a drop of orange extract to give it
that delicious orange flavour that we all love, then poured over the flapjacks.
Let it drench and fully coat the flapjacks to resemble that Christmas pudding look.
After allowing it to firm up in the fridge I melted up some white chocolate and then
poured that carefully over the top of the milk chocolate to give it that Christmas pudding
effect.
Allow that to firm in the fridge again then finish up with the holly leaves and it looks
awesome.
These are so good sorry I cannot stop eating them, so there we go that is how you make
a Christmas flapjack.
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subscribe, if you make these send us a picture we would love to see them, I think I lost
the berries too they have fallen off somewhere I better get those before the dogs do, anyhow
see you next time.