Apple Flapjack Recipe

Kent School dinner recipes

Using apples from the Garden of England this is a tasty fruit snack that is quick and easy to make.

Serves 6

Ingredients

900g cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced

65g sugar

150g butter

60ml golden syrup

225g rolled oats

5g ground ginger

Method

1 Simmer the apples gently in a covered pan with 40g sugar, but no liquid, until pulpy. Cool slightly.

2 Butter and base-line an 18cm round loose bottomed cake tin.

3 Heat the remaining sugar with the butter and syrup, until dissolved. Stir in the oats and ginger.

4 Before it cools, line the base with three-quarters of the flapjack mixture.

5 Pour the apple pulp into the centre, cover with the remaining mixture pressing it down lightly.

6 Bake in the oven at 190�C (375�f ) mark 5

for 35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before loosening edges and turning out.

7 Serve warm or well chilled.

Nutritional analysis per portion

Energy kcal

463.7

Calcium mg

34.7

Protein g

5.4

Sodium mg

195.0

Fat g

24.0

Iron mg

2.2

Saturates g

13.0

Zinc mg

1.3

Carbohydrate g

61.0

Folate �g

30.0

NME g

18.5

Vitamin C mg

21.0

Fibre g

5.0

Vitamin A �g

226.5

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