Basic Baking: The Best Flapjack Recipe! | The Perfect Race Snack?
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2022
- We all know that carbs are our friend when it comes to fueling for endurance sports. We don’t need to complicate our nutrition plan, we just need to make sure we’ve got something that we want to eat on those long rides and steady runs. In the line of keeping it simple both for stomach and cooking skills, Heather is here to share a delicious oat flapjack recipe. Recipe below 👇
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INGREDIENTS
250g oats
2-3 TBSP golden syrup
125g butter
125g brown sugar
Before we start the melting and mixing you’ll need to find yourself a baking tray, 20cm x 20cm approx and some sort of baking paper or foil to line it with. Then turn your oven to 180deg C / 350 F.
Once you’ve lined your tin with the paper you’ve chosen, smother that in butter, you’ll find it easier if your butter is at room temperature. Make sure you’re generous, we don’t want the flapjacks sticking.
If you haven’t yet done so, weigh out all of the ingredients.
Now onto the fun part, the melting. You could do this in a microwave but there’s something far more satisfying about stirring it over the stove. Add the butter, sugar and syrup into your saucepan and on a low heat stir occasionally until the butter has melted and the sugar granules are no longer noticeable.
Note you can swap up the sugar, I sometimes use coconut sugar for a subtle flavour change and even substitute honey in for the golden syrup. Do be careful though as honey is usually a little runnier so can affect the consistency.
If you want diary free flapjacks then look at swapping the butter with a vegan butter or even try coconut oil if you like that flavour.
The beauty of these flapjacks is their simplicity. You can add to this ingredients with nuts, fruit, desiccated coconut, chocolate chips, the choice is huge. All of those I’ve mentioned need to be mixed in with the oats, unless you’re using huge amounts they shouldn’t change the consistency.
Pour the goey mixture over the oats in the bowl but I’m always keen to reduce the washing up so I pour the oats into the saucepan instead. Mix until they’re all fully coated and then spoon into your prepared tray.
Level out the ingredients using the back of the spoon.
Pop in the oven and check after 10’. You’re looking for the flapjacks to look golden brown. Too pale and they won’t be cooked and will be too goey, too dark and they’ll start to caramelise and become too crunchy.
When out of the oven turn out and cut into squares. They’ll still be warm so place on a cooling rack to fully cool before placing into an airtight container.
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What do you eat on race day? Let us know!
Dried figs and dates.
Add some peanut powder and hot choc to the mix for a kind of Reece’s pieces taste. 😋
Hello dear GTN Team, many thanks for the recipe. I would add some salt, just a bit, to cut the "flat" taste from the oats.
I wish my kitchen was that clean :D
If anyones wondering if this works with non-dairy “butter” (the baking stick kind) it worked great but I had to add some more oats to get it to the consistency in the video - ymmv, I think that might have been down to my oats. Dead easy recipe and delicious results, thanks!
“Triathlon’s Guide - Cooking with Heather Fell”
This looks like one of those recipes with a million possibilities!
Absolutely!
👍more recipes please. Loved this
I always try and pack flapjack when out for a long ride. I must start making them though! This reminds me how easy it is.
More videos like this, please! 😁
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great bars! Help us with storage and packing to rides, please.
Did the flapjacks make it to the bike ride 😉 Looking at them just makes you want to eat them at the spot 😋
I think my flapjack recipe is an identical ratio. I sometimes stir in some finely chopped glacé cherries for flavour and if I ever remember to buy some, some almonds. Biggest problem is preventing my girlfriend from eating half of my stash before I actually get out on the bike with them.
Patience is key🤣🤣
Carbon bikes, Carbonated Drinks, and Carbo-Hydrates. Hmm!
Not keen on the butter and sugar - I make my own 'powerbars' using oats, dates, cocoa and agave nectar, finely chop everything together in a mixer and add a little warm waterwater for consistency, mix well, press into a lined tin and pop in the fridge, cut into slices, wrap and take on a ride :-)
Love your recipe. I was also quite disappointed with the unhealthy nature of this episode. Unless GTN feels otherwise, skeptical of any potential benefits compared to some healthier alternatives they've featured in the past.
Think you got to make them.
Wish you did the video in Nigela Lawson style 🤣
How long can you store those Flapjacks? looks great just started to make some selfmade cereals and i love it!!!
I have been making something similar and I just wrap mine in foil and carry them in my cycling jersey pocket or my nathans handheld running water bottle.
How do you wrap them up for riding?
Tipp: add cinnamon
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Isn't that just an Anzac biscuit?
125 g of sugar. Very healthy. 🤔
Agree - not keen! See my alternative recipe above :-)
@@markwilson4535 Agave nectar is even worse because it contains 85% of fructose. Human body can't use fructose directly for energy production and almost 100% of it is converted to fat in liver. Fructose triggers insuline release which blocks fat burning and this fat is stored in adipose tissues. Simply put it makes you fat.
@@inz_uzi Also sometimes use honey - have seen varying reports about agave - depending on source or process?
As an American, this was a very confusing episode for me. :P
Apologies, we do try to make them as easy to follow as possible, we'll try harder in the future!
@@gtn Oh gosh no, the video was perfectly fine, and I had no problem with the recipe! I was joking that it’s not what I expected because in America, a “flapjack” is a pancake. Great content, and keep up the awesome work!
Keto nightmare lol
Says Durianrider . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
first first first
Rapid!
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