Preheat oven to 220°C/gas 7 and grease a 20x20cm baking tin. In a pan melt 50g butter with 75g clear honey and a pinch of salt. Take off the heat and stir in 200g rolled oats and 50g ground almonds.
Showing posts with label Bars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bars. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Raspberry Flapjack
I was flicking through a friend's BBC GoodFood magazine when I came to a section with recipes that cut back on refined sugar. I made these tasty flapjacks the same evening! They were so quick to make - only took about 20 minutes, including baking time.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Granola Bars
Firstly, I want to say a MASSIVE thanks to all those who contributed a guest post. I loved reading what other people have been making, and it has filled me with inspiration! It feels good to be back in the hot-seat though!
When I'm at work and need a snack I often turn to cereal bars, I have found a few healthy ones (where I can pronounce all of the ingredients, and sugar isn't the number one ingredient), but they are expensive and tend not to be very filling.
My recipe does contain sugar, but considerably less than a lot of the granola bar recipes I found. Although they aren't particularly low in calories or fat (175 calories and 6.7g per bar) they give good slow-releasing carbs from the oats and fruits and have good fat from the seeds and nuts. The great thing about these granola bars is you can substitute whatever you have in your cupboard for the ingredients below, as long as you keep the ratio of wet and dry ingredients more or less the same. For example you could try pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower seeds, hazelnuts instead of walnuts and apricots instead of figs.
When I'm at work and need a snack I often turn to cereal bars, I have found a few healthy ones (where I can pronounce all of the ingredients, and sugar isn't the number one ingredient), but they are expensive and tend not to be very filling.
My recipe does contain sugar, but considerably less than a lot of the granola bar recipes I found. Although they aren't particularly low in calories or fat (175 calories and 6.7g per bar) they give good slow-releasing carbs from the oats and fruits and have good fat from the seeds and nuts. The great thing about these granola bars is you can substitute whatever you have in your cupboard for the ingredients below, as long as you keep the ratio of wet and dry ingredients more or less the same. For example you could try pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower seeds, hazelnuts instead of walnuts and apricots instead of figs.
Roxanne's Granola Bars
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Lemon Bars
My final guest post (for now) comes from Pam, and looks like the perfect treat for a Tuesday tea-break!
I love lemons. The sharp sweetness and tangy bite they give is just like nectar to me. So when I offered to make, bake and blog a recipe for your site I knew it had to include one of my favourite ingredients! I decided to make some lemon bars I'd had my eye on trying for a while...
The recipe I followed is from The Food Network website and was enough to feed the 5,000, so I adjusted the measurements down by half. This was an experiment after all...
Lemon Bars
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| Tasty little biscuits |
Monday, 23 May 2011
Smores Squares
This week I am bringing you a guest post everyday as some of my friends and family share their recipes – I hope you enjoy! I will be making all of the guest recipes in the future, and will report back as to how I get on.
The first guest blogger is Polly, who previously shared her Peanut-butter cookies, see the post here.
The first guest blogger is Polly, who previously shared her Peanut-butter cookies, see the post here.
I'm back with another naughty but nice recipe for you (one to break the diet with!!!)
Smores Squares
What you need:
1½ cups plain flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
6 ounces chocolate chips
3 large eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup digestive biscuits/graham crackers, roughly crushed with your hands
large handful mini marshmallows
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
6 ounces chocolate chips
3 large eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup digestive biscuits/graham crackers, roughly crushed with your hands
large handful mini marshmallows
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Rocky's Rocky Road
In days gone by, when I was a wee lass...one of my nicknames was 'Rocky', and I'm bringing the name out of retirement for one recipe only.
The beauty of rocky road is that you can just put the things you like in it, the main thing is to get the right balance between crunchy bits and bits that set. It's easy to substitute whatever you have in your store-cupboard for what I used in my recipe - and experiment yourselves! Let me know if you come up with any award-winning combinations... The best thing about this recipe is the 3 easy steps to achieve chocolate-y goodness!
Rocky's Rocky Road
250g milk chocolate100g Cadbury's caramel nibbles
50g butter
3 tbsp golden syrup
1 tube of Smarties, chopped
40g mini marshmallows
100g rich tea biscuits, broken into small pieces
100g Rice Crispies
Monday, 22 November 2010
Apple and almond crumble slice
Described on the BBC website as ‘moderately easy’, I’m not sure I agree. This cake requires 3 separate bakes in the oven with different components added each time. If it tasted amazing at the end it would be worth it, but I’m not sure it did. I think, however, it would be quite a lot easier if you own a food processor. The recipe uses plums, however I used cooking apples, which work just as well.
If you tend to find long recipes boring skip the next two paragraphs…
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