Easy Granola Flapjack Recipe (2024)

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What is the difference between granola bars and flapjacks? ›

What is the difference between Flapjacks and Granola bars? Like flapjacks, granola bars are made from oats but often have less oats and more other added ingredients like dried fruits and nuts. A flapjack is also traditionally slightly more chewy and soft to eat than a granola bar.

When added to your homemade granola bars, honey acts as glue that sticks all the pieces together. Another upside of adding honey to your recipe is that it is a natural sweetener, meaning you won't have to add any artificial sweeteners to your recipe.

5 Bake for 25 minutes until golden. After five minutes cooling, press the flapjacks with something heavy and flat (this compresses them and stops them falling apart). Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares.

Not enough binding ingredients: Flapjacks need a binding ingredient, such as eggs or mashed bananas, to hold them together.

In the US, a flapjack is a less common way of saying "pancake"; in the UK, it's a chewy, sweet granola bar.

In other English-speaking countries, the same item is called by different names, such as cereal bar, oat bar or (in Australia and New Zealand) oat slice. In the United States and Canada, "flapjack" is a widely-known but lesser-used term for pancake.

When dampened, chia seeds gel and swell to several times their original size, plus they get very sticky. Since they're already used as egg alternatives in baking, it's not surprising that chia seeds act as the ideal granola binder, but it is strange that they do it better than eggs.

Homemade granola bars aren't hard to make once you have all the right ingredients and they'll certainly save you money in the long term.

This soaking process will help the oats and seeds digest better. After the oat/seed mixture has soaked 8-12 hours, add the rest of the ingredients and combine.

Flapjacks contain high levels of sugar, syrup and butter, meaning it shouldn't be mistaken as a food that has many health benefits but rather as a delicious treat to have in moderation.

What happens if you put too much syrup in flapjacks? ›

For me, too much golden syrup makes them hard to bite through and dunking is simply not an option with flapjacks. Golden syrup can also make flapjacks sickly sweet. Cooking times and oven temperature are important.

Flapjacks can go hard if the temperature is too high when heating the butter, sugar and syrup mixture on the hob. Instead, keep it on a low heat, stirring occasionally. During baking, rotating the tray in the oven can help them cook more evenly.

How to make flapjacks stick together and not crumble. Splitting the oats in two and blending half into a flour really helps everything stick together. It is also vital to really press the mixture into the tray before you cook. And resist the temptation to take them out of the tray when they are warm.

You also don't want to let them cool down completely before cutting them as they'll be too hard. You should always cut flapjacks while they're still warm so you can easily slice through them and create even, equal slices.

cold cutting might well be the solution! I also find mine hold together better if when I'm melting the butter sugar and syrup bit, I let it bubble for a minute. These are good tips! I've had problems with flapjacks being a pile of (delicious) crumbs, and I cant believe it's the recipe as Nigella is usually so reliable!

In the UK, the Isle of Man, Ireland, and Newfoundland, a flapjack is a baked bar, cooked in a flat oven tin and cut into rectangles, made from rolled oats, fat (typically butter), brown sugar and usually golden syrup. Another American in England here... flapjacks are not granola bars.

The word flapjack has different definitions in different countries. In the US, a flapjack is the same as a pancake in the US—a thin cake made from batter and grilled. It has become a regional colloquialism in certain areas of the US (especially the Southeast) to refer to pancakes.

In the US and Canada, pancakes and flapjacks are the same thing, but which word applies is mainly a regional difference. I know in the states we northerners are more likely to say pancake, but down south the flapjack is more likely to be the star of the breakfast table.

Stateside, confusingly, flapjacks mean pancakes but in UK, flapjacks are something completely different, a tray-baked, soft-centered, chewy, crunchy-edged caramel-scented bar made only with oats, golden syrup, brown sugar, and butter*. If they are not already, we need these in our lives.