Colin-head Flapjacks
Ingredients:
6 oz / 170g Margarine (or butter)
6 oz / 170g Brown sugar
3 tbsp Golden syrup
9 oz / 255g oats
Chocolate (or whatever kind of sweets nuts or raisins that you want to decorate it with)
Method:
•Preheat the oven to gas mark (180 ◦)
•Melt the margarine, syrup and sugar together (either in a saucepan or in the microwave)
•Stir in the oats.
•Pour into a baking tin (lined with greaseproof paper / baking parchment)
•Bake for 20 minutes (have a look after 15 minutes to make sure they’re not getting overcooked. When the edges turn brown take them out)
•Let them cool in the tin before cutting into rectangles and decorating with chocolate chips. I melted some of the chocolate chips to make the mouths.
You can add extra ingredients to the mixture before you cook it too but it might make it too lumpy to be good Colin head.
Discussion (10) ¬
Yowsa. Almost entirely composed of margarine, sugar and golden syrup. I think I’ll wait until I’ve worked Easter off before trying these out.
And oats. Oats are healthy. So that makers them balanced.
Luckily these are rectangles and so are not banned in schools.
So Pauline heads will? xD
If it hadn’t been for that bizarre news item about the triangular flapjacks being classified as weapons, I would be so confused by this recipe! Here in the U.S., “flapjack” is another word for pancake. We’d probably call these granola bars or oat squares or something. I wonder how that little twist in English happened? Two nations divided by a common language, indeed!
Aww these look awesome! I want to make them but I don’t think they sell golden syrup in the US. Does any one know if I could use Molasses instead?
Also I looked online and it said 180C would be 350F on a US oven is that right?
356 technically. But yes. And I have no clue about the other things, sorry, just felt calculatey.
Molasses is generally a good substitute for golden syrup, and vice versa.
These are in the oven now, and I can’t wait to try them! I substituted honey for golden syrup, which I think works well with the taste, but I think you could use molasses or beet syrup (in Dutch we call it stroop) as well. Even maple syrup works, I think, though perhaps that’s a little runnier.