This week's bake of the week was an Autumnal themed cake, but unfortunately it all got eaten before I remembered to take a picture of it. So it was back to the kitchen, and time to do one of the recipes from my "wish-list". I recently acquired two new books on baking - BBC Good Food's 101 Bakes and cakes and Mary Berry's Baking Bible - and drew up a list of things that I want to make this Autumn. First up, the Chewy gooey flapjacks from 101 Bakes and Cakes. Essentially these are banana flapjacks, only involving fresh banana rather than banana chips which seemed to be an interesting idea. Pretty yummy, but not quite as good as my favourite apple flapjack. Hopefully we'll have some left to take with us for the Great East Swim on Saturday as I think they are the perfect swimming fuel...
I've always thought pancakes and flapjacks were the same thing but now I see that they are not. We had pancakes in our house for breakfast this morning with butter and maple syrup on top. Your flapjacks look delicious so I'm going to have to have to give them a try.
ReplyDeleteI placed an order yesterday for Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking. Perhaps if I'm lucky there will be a recipe in there!
Darlene - this is a good recipe, pretty much standard, although you may have to translate the quantities. Do you have golden syrup? Very important to make them chewy...The glory of this basic recipe is that you can add all sorts of things like apple sauce, or bananas or raisins or chocolate chips.
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Thanks Verity! Yes we do have golden syrup in the pantry, R uses it as a glaze for his pork roast.
ReplyDeleteDarlene - ooh, I've just thought, you can make amazing maple syrup flapjacks too! Ken was suspicious, as he likes maple syrup so much that he'll eat it from the bottle with a spoon, and was worried that it was a waste of perfectly good maple syrup, but with pecans in the mix too, he liked them very much!
ReplyDeleteI love a good British flapjack and this one is making me hungry. Darlene: your initial assumption is correct. In the US a flapjack is synomymous with pancake.
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