Greetings Gastronauts! This is Keef Cooks,
I'm Keef, and today I'm going to show you
how to do something really tasty,
really easy - a sweet biscuity
kind of thing - flapjacks
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I need to give a shoutout to my new
Patreon Fan, Kevin Carlson. Welcome and
thank you. And also a shoutout to
Baz in Brum, who just wanted a shoutout,
so hello mate! Right, flapjacks in the US
or y'know North America, South Africa
and probably some other places - what you
think of as a flapjack is what I think
of as a pancake. And in other parts of
the world they're not called flapjacks,
they're called oat bars or cereal bars
or even granola bars - whatever granola is.
So it's all a bit confusing but the
actual thing is dead easy and lovely.
So let's do it!
Ingredients there's only four...
250 grams of oats, 175 grams of brown sugar -
that's Demerara sugar - and 175 grams of
butter. And also four tablespoons of
golden syrup. If you can't get golden
syrup, don't worry, you can make your own
- it's dead easy and I'll put a link to
the recipe somewhere. So first thing we
need to do is melt together the butter
and the sugar in a little saucepan
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That's kind of what we want, so I'm
actually going to use my brain and pop
the oats into a metal bowl, not a plastic
one because this is hot! So all you need
to do is just mix those together - oh and
you need to get your oven on to preheat
so I'll put this on 140 Celsius because
it's a fan oven - if it's not a fan oven,
160 Celsius. Mixy mixy, get all the oats
completely coated and now I'll add
the golden syrup and - well, I'm not
cheating but this this is my homemade
because there's not actually enough in there.
And in cold weather you'll find it
becomes pretty stiff, so just pop it into
a bowl of warm water to make it more liquid.
So that's 4 tablespoons of this.
Now you want to get a rimmed baking sheet lined
with greaseproof paper, parchment paper
or a silicon mat and just pop your
mixture onto there and spread it out,
right to the edges. Try to get as even a
layer as you can and it should be about
6mm - about a quarter of an inch thick -
a smaller baking sheet might have been a good
idea! OK that'll do I think. And that
needs to go in the oven for 30 to 40
minutes - check it after 30 to see how it's doing.
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Time's up!
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That's still a bit soft -
I'm going to pop it in for another five minutes.
Right, another five minutes and that's
quite a bit firmer so I'm just going to
leave that to cool down like that for
about ten minutes.
So now you just want to cut them up -
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I'm doing these for a bake sale so I need to
try and get them fairly accurately cut.
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Oh, I've broken one - what a shame - mm-hmm.
I'll just pop those on a wire rack and let
them cool down completely.
Taste Test Time!
OK I've had a taste already but I'm up
for another one. So they're a little bit
bendy and that's 'cos of the golden syrup
in them but also a little bit crunchy
and sweet and buttery and just mm-hmm.
They're wonderful!
And that's that, I hope you enjoyed it.
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see you next time.
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