Epic chocolate topped flapjacks
TheDoctor90
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The following is my journey to creating the worlds most super epic delicious chocolate protein filled chocolate topped honey stuffed flapjacks.
It has been a perilous adventure, full of bowl lickings, burnt fingertips and chocolate overdoses. Proceed with caution.
First you need a kitchen such as this:
Any will do but it really needs to contain an oven.
Second you need the ingredients.
Cadbury chocolate bar (fo melting) As you can see I only have half a bar. I bought the full bar but then ate half. So I bought another (cheaper) bar of chocolate but I also ate half of that. So I had to combine the two. I am not sorry.
Oats - I prefer Quaker even though I'm Catholic.
Golden Syrup - This is a must, get Tate & Lyle (the name of my first rabbits) cheaper alternatives are not acceptable.
Honey - Any will do but I prefer the 97p sainsbury's one.
Some sugar, brown or white, I'm not racist.
Some people add a bit of butter, but I think all of the above is enough for a heart attack without la beurre.
Cadbury chocolate spread - not sure where this fits in but we'll just go with it.
Next some scales for weighing your ingredients. I do not require them as I was born with the gift of being able to visually detect the weight of something as accurate to the nearest gram, just by looking at it. But something like this is ideal:
Oats (about 350g)
Chuck the golden syrup, honey and sugar into a pan and heat GENTLY. You do not want to burn the lovelyness so please, low heat. It's a fine art so I don't expect many of you to get it first time round. It took me a while before I managed to turn the knob down to 2.
AHHH so this is where the chocolate spread comes in. Mmm smells nice.
Science dictates that chocolate spread, syrup etc when heated will then look like this:
In go the oats. This is a delicate process but expect to lose about 100g of oats to the surrounding surfaces. Mix.
Then place everything into a preferably square oven proof container. You may use circular if you have a problem with angles, but that's the chefs preference.
Make as much mess as you can for your flatmates/parents/significant other (wife) to clean up.
Oven at around 150c or gas mark I have no idea. 45 minutes of staring at the oven and you have this:
Now you could stop there but oh no, I like to take things one step further.
Break up your chocolate and put into a bowl. Put some boiling water into a pan and simmer. Place the bowl on top of the pan. Do NOT try to melt chocolate directly in a pan. You will fail miserably.
The following three pictures chronicle the chocolate melting. I took three because I want to enjoy that process again.
Finally, spread onto your flapjacks and stick in the fridge. Relax, perhaps read a magazine, go for a leisurely walk and come back to find perfect flapjacks.
You're welcome.
It has been a perilous adventure, full of bowl lickings, burnt fingertips and chocolate overdoses. Proceed with caution.
First you need a kitchen such as this:
Any will do but it really needs to contain an oven.
Second you need the ingredients.
Cadbury chocolate bar (fo melting) As you can see I only have half a bar. I bought the full bar but then ate half. So I bought another (cheaper) bar of chocolate but I also ate half of that. So I had to combine the two. I am not sorry.
Oats - I prefer Quaker even though I'm Catholic.
Golden Syrup - This is a must, get Tate & Lyle (the name of my first rabbits) cheaper alternatives are not acceptable.
Honey - Any will do but I prefer the 97p sainsbury's one.
Some sugar, brown or white, I'm not racist.
Some people add a bit of butter, but I think all of the above is enough for a heart attack without la beurre.
Cadbury chocolate spread - not sure where this fits in but we'll just go with it.
Next some scales for weighing your ingredients. I do not require them as I was born with the gift of being able to visually detect the weight of something as accurate to the nearest gram, just by looking at it. But something like this is ideal:
Oats (about 350g)
Chuck the golden syrup, honey and sugar into a pan and heat GENTLY. You do not want to burn the lovelyness so please, low heat. It's a fine art so I don't expect many of you to get it first time round. It took me a while before I managed to turn the knob down to 2.
AHHH so this is where the chocolate spread comes in. Mmm smells nice.
Science dictates that chocolate spread, syrup etc when heated will then look like this:
In go the oats. This is a delicate process but expect to lose about 100g of oats to the surrounding surfaces. Mix.
Then place everything into a preferably square oven proof container. You may use circular if you have a problem with angles, but that's the chefs preference.
Make as much mess as you can for your flatmates/parents/significant other (wife) to clean up.
Oven at around 150c or gas mark I have no idea. 45 minutes of staring at the oven and you have this:
Now you could stop there but oh no, I like to take things one step further.
Break up your chocolate and put into a bowl. Put some boiling water into a pan and simmer. Place the bowl on top of the pan. Do NOT try to melt chocolate directly in a pan. You will fail miserably.
The following three pictures chronicle the chocolate melting. I took three because I want to enjoy that process again.
Finally, spread onto your flapjacks and stick in the fridge. Relax, perhaps read a magazine, go for a leisurely walk and come back to find perfect flapjacks.
You're welcome.
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I have no idea how to resize so just RIGHT CLICK and press VIEW IMAGE
Maybe MFP will one day catch up with the rest of technology and sort this out.0 -
Not only epic chocolate topped flapjacks but an epic kitchen adventure too! Great work Padster. Save one for me, I'm sure they taste a lot better than my 122 cal 0 sugar cr*pjacks.0
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Not only epic chocolate topped flapjacks but an epic kitchen adventure too! Great work Padster. Save one for me, I'm sure they taste a lot better than my 122 cal 0 sugar crapjacks.
I shall bring them to this Manchester meet and eat them all myself because I wasn't told about it.0 -
looks good.0
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That was amazing food porn! Thank you.
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Looks delicious !0
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I would estimate there being around 5000 calories in this.0
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Marry me.0
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Marry me.
:glasses: Done.0 -
This is probably that funniest recipe I've ever read. You rock.0
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Yummmmmm!!0
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Enjoy with a cup of tea.0 -
I agree
I would estimate there being around 5000 calories in this.0 -
I agree
That's part of the fun.0 -
Haha, this is brilliant - on all counts! Please have more kitchen adventures!
I actually might try this as I love flapjacks, but with a few added extras like raisins and nuts (actually, fruit and nut Cadburys would work! lol)0
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