Microwave Apple & Cinnamon Flapjacks - Quick & Easy
Forget the oven. Make these chewy Scottish-style apple & cinnamon flapjacks in the microwave in a few minutes. Ridiculously good oat bars!
Servings: 8 bars
Calories: 325kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g porridge oats (rolled oats)
- 100 g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 120 g brown sugar
- 150 g vegan butter
- 50 g apple sauce
- 25 g golden syrup (or maple syrup)
- 2 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 small apple (grated, skin on, discard the core)
cinnamon icing (optional)
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar (confectioner's sugar)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon water
Instructions
- Butter your microwave dish (mine is a ceramic dish which is 13 ½ cm x 18 cm (5 ½ inches x 7 ¼ inches) approximately. Try to find one of a similar size, glass, ceramic or plastic. A bit bigger or smaller is ok.
- Add the butter, golden syrup and apple sauce to a microwave friendly bowl and melt for about 1 minute. Set aside.
- Add the oats, flour, brown sugar, grated apple, cinnamon and salt to a mixing bowl and mix well.
- Pour in the wet ingredients and mix well to allow all the oats to be well coated.
- Spoon into your buttered microwave dish and press down really well with the back of a spoon. You want the surface as even as possible and the mixture well compacted to prevent the bars being crumbly.
- Microwave for 4 minutes, sit for 2 minutes, then microwave for 3 ½ minutes. See notes below, your microwave may be more or less powerful and you will have to adjust the time.
- Cut the bars in the dish and leave to cool in the dish. it will firm slightly as it cools.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- My microwave is 800 watts. If yours is a higher wattage, you may want to take the flapjacks out a minute or so early. If your microwave is less powerful, the flapjacks may need an extra minute or two.
- You can skip the icing.
- The bars can be cut into 16 squares to half the calories, skipping the icing will also reduce the calories.
- These bars are good crumbled on ice cream or yoghurt.
- They are also good served warm with custard.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 bar | Calories: 325kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 133mg | Potassium: 180mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 730IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 2mg
