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Healthier Banana Flapjack Bars

  • Fred and Butter
  • Jan 8, 2022
  • 2 min read

Gluten free, refined sugar free, dairy free and packed with natural sources of energy.


This recipe makes up a small batch of about 6 bars or 12 squares depending on how you cut them. But you can easily scale up.


 


 

Ingredients


Wet

2 tbsp Coconut Oil

2 tbsp Honey

2 tbsp Nut Butter


Dry

3/4 cup Rolled Oats

1/4 cup Almond Flour

1/4 tsp Salt


Filling

1/2 cup mashed banana or enough to create an even layer.


 

Method


  1. Pre-heat your oven 180˚C and line a 1lb loaf tin with non-stick baking paper.

  2. Combine all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.

  3. Combine all the wet ingredients in a medium saucepan on a very low heat. As soon as all the wet ingredients are combined take the pan off the heat.

  4. Add the dry into the wet ingredients in the pan and mix to combine.

  5. Tip half of the oat mixture into the lined loaf tin and using your fingers or the back of a spoon, carefully press down the oats until you have a compact even layer.

  6. Mash your banana and then add it on top of the first half of oat mixture. Create an even layer across all the oats.

  7. Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture on top of your fruit making sure you cover it in an even layer. Press down firmly so that everything is compacted together.

  8. Bake for 18-20 mins until the top is golden brown.

  9. Ideally wait until it has completely cooled before slicing.


 

Notes

I like to use jumbo rolled oats for flapjacks, but this is purely an aesthetic preference, any size of rolled oats will do.


If you’d like to add a few handfuls of seeds or chopped nuts to the dry mix, feel free, they may just make the flapjack a little more crumbly when it comes to cutting them.


You can use any nut butter of preference. Smooth tends to work best. For the batch in the photograph I used a mixture of smooth peanut butter and tahini.


I know I may be going on about the squishing, but it really does help with keeping everything together and achieving a nice chewy texture, rather than a more crumbly one. But if you are a fan of a crumbly flapjack then less squishing for you.

 
 
 

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