Right ho, I actually have two recipes to natter about and both are oat based (a firm favourite with us)
Recipe 14/52 - classic oat cookies
115gm (4 oz) soft butter
140gm (5 oz) light brown sugar
1 large egg - lightly beaten
1 tablespoon mild
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
100gm (3 1/2 oz) self-raising flour
75gm (generous 2 1/2oz) dried fruit
150gm (5 1/4oz) porridge oats
preheat the oven to 180 deg C (350 deg F) gas mark 4.
Chuck together the butter, sugar, egg, milk and vanilla extract into a bowl and beat well. Add the flour, dried fruit and oats and mix well with a wooden spoon. put heaped teaspoons of the oatie yummy dough on to well greased baking trays - space well apart (otherwise all your little teaspoon lumps end up as a frisbee sized oat platter!)
Bake in a preheated oven for about 12 - 15ish minutes, I have done both times and the 12 mins gives you a softer 'cookie' with crisp edges and the 15 mins gives you a crisper crunchier biscuit, either way - they don't last long. The photos below are the THIRD baking, the previous two were munched fairly quickly soon after being lifted out of the oven (.............would you like another biscuit with those third degree burns?............)
According to the recipe you can keep them in an airtight container and eat them within 5 days - hah! fat chance.
Recipe 15/52 Jam Packed Flapjacks
This one I found on the BBC website. We've had them three times and after the initial baking, I omitted the jam as we found it just too sweet.
Delish - however - each time and despite copious amounts of greasing or grease and silver foil, these flapjacks stuck horribly. When I made them in the silicone baking tray, they didn't stick....to the base of the tray or to themselves! The flapjacks just fell apart into a pile of very yummy crumbs.
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Ok, that's enough waffling about biscuits, time to go into the kitchen and actually clear up the fall out from those flapjacks, which entails an awful amount of hoovering up of yummy oaty crumbles and I don't mean with the vacuum cleaner!!
Hope you all had a lovely weekend and here's to the start of the week!!
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There is nothing like homemade biscuits, expecially oaty ones! One of our faves here is a very plain and not too sweet oaty biscuit from my old, battered BeRo book! Enjoy xx
ReplyDeleteI'm here just beginning the Weight Watchers program...think I gained some just looking at those biscuits...they look yummy! Hope you have a wonderful week! Vicki
ReplyDeleteHa, was thinking about your post while dog walking and felt sure you'd mentioned biscuits but had no recollection of the details. It wasn't my memory for once ;-) They
ReplyDeletesound delish - will give them a whirl later in the week.
Recipes which end in 'keeps for up to ........' always make me laugh too!
Found your blog today and wanted to say hi! I wish I had time to make these today they look so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBee happy x
Have a delicious day!
yum! now i'm hungry again :) i had to fiddle around with a few flapjack recipes to get the right consistency, but they made for such tasty mistakes i didn't mind!
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ReplyDeletealso meant to ask if you would like to be a featured maker on my blog? if so, i can email you a list of lots of nosey-parker style questions :) if not, no worries, i promise not to take the huff :)x
email address is narkeymarkey@hotmail.co.uk
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Andrea - please can I have your BeRo recipe for the flapjacks, I remember using that book at school cookery classes and doing the flapjacks from that - talk about a flashback!
ReplyDeleteArtteachergirl - sorry Vickie!
Bee happy - welcome, nice to meet you :)
narkeymarkey - ooh thank you :) what an honour, will contact you x