Recipe - Banana + date flapjacks

  

Today I am sharing one of our family's favourite healthier flapjack recipes. It is adapted from the Clean Eating with Kids blog

It is such a simple recipe and my son enjoys mixing all of the ingredients together and scooping the mixture into the baking tin.

You can find the recipe below and also here is a PDF version of the recipe in case you prefer to print it out and add it to your recipe binder!

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INGREDIENTS

• 3 Cups Oats
• 76g Butter
• 6 dates (stone removed)
• 1 Mashed Banana
• 1 tbsp Maple Syrup
• Sprinkle of cinnamon
• Sprinkle of vanilla powder
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METHOD

• Make your date paste. Take your dates and cover with boiling water. Blend your paste until it’s smooth (we use nutribullet). Add a little more boiling water if needed, you want the paste to be really thick.
• Once paste is blended, add your banana (we add it to nutribullet) and blend the mixture together. Put to one side.
• Melt butter a little. Add the warm butter, maple syrup, cinnamon and vanilla to the oats and mix with a spoon
• Line your baking pan with paper. Rub a little butter on the paper to stop the Flapjack sticking (we use a silicone cake tin instead). Push your mixture well into the pan, so it’s compact and even on top.
• Bake for around 190 (depending on your oven) for 18 minutes. The flapjacks will be soft when you take them out of the oven, they’ll harden up as they cool (they seem to be much easier to cut up the next day, if you can can wait that long!)