Tag: Weekend Baking

Date, Chocolate and Peanut Butter Flapjacks

Baking, Cheap, Children, chocolate, Comforting, Dairy Free, Easy, Food, plastic free, Quick, Recipes, Snacks, Store Cupboard, Sweets, Vegan
Treat yourself to a yummy tea break this week with these moreish little bites...with just a little hint of that naughty snickers bar taste! Can be made using vegan alternatives too...
Treat yourself to a yummy tea break this week with these moreish little bites…with just a little hint of that naughty snickers bar taste!

Makes: 12 squares

Prep: 10mins
Cook: 30mins

Ingredients: 300g porridge oats, 150g of butter (or vegan alternative), 150g of golden syrup, 135g of brown sugar, 80g of pitted chopped dates, 2 tbsps. of peanut butter, 50g of dark salted chocolate (or vegan alternative).

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 150°C fan
  2. Weigh out your butter, sugar and golden syrup and melt gently in a pan until runny and all ingredient combined
  3. Pour the wet ingredients over your oats and dates and mix well until the oats are completely coated in the buttery mixture
  4. Swirl in your peanut butter and pour into a lined baking tray so that the flapjack mixture lays an inch thick
  5. Pop in the oven for 30mins
  6. Allow to cool
  7. Melt your chocolate and drizzle over the flapjacks, leave to set or cut into 12 squares and eat straight away…
  8. Enjoy!
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Just when you thought Banana Bread couldn’t get any sweeter… Banana Bread with Dates and Chia Seeds

Baking, Cake, Comforting, Easy, lockdown, Recipes

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Just when you thought Banana Bread couldn’t be any sweeter… the addition of the chia seeds and dates makes this moorishly good! Don’t worry if you don’t have chia seeds or dates just add some raisins and it will still taste great! 

Makes: One large loaf

Prep: 10mins
Cook: 45mins – 1 hour

Ingredients: 285g of wholemeal flour, 4 ripe bananas (mashed), 200g of sugar, 2 eggs, 100ml of olive oil, 85ml of milk, 1 tsp. of bicarbonate soda, 1 tsp. of baking powder, 30g of chia seeds, 50g of pitted dates (chopped), 1 tsp. of vanilla extract, pinch of salt.

Method: 

  1. Preheat oven to 180C
  2. Combine the flour, sugar, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder in a bowl
  3. Mix the eggs, oil, vanilla extract and milk together then add to your dry mix
  4. Mix well, then add the dates, chia seeds and mashed bananas and fold all together
  5. Pour into a deep lined baking dish and pop in the oven for 45mins to one hour until golden brown on top
  6. Allow to cool…
  7. Enjoy with a cuppa