Recipe for milk chocolate, honey and apricot flapjacks

There is something so comforting about a flapjack.
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This version, packed with seedy, nutty granola, speckled with apricots and topped with a scrumptious layer of milk chocolate will bring everyone to the kitchen for a chat and a slice!

Recipe created by Miranda Gore Brown

Ingredients

100g butter (or margarine).

50g sugar (use brown or demerara if you have it).

2 tablespoons of honey (or golden/maple syrup).

300g of Lizi’s Original Granola.

Pinch of salt.

75g chopped apricots and 50g sultanas (optional), or add a grated apple.

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150g milk chocolate chips or a roughly chopped chocolate bar.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

2. Put the butter, sugar and honey into a saucepan and melt.

3. Put the granola, apricots, and sultanas into a large bowl.

4. Pour the melted butter and sugar mixture onto the dry ingredients and stir well to combine.

5. Line a tin with non-stick baking paper.

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6. Scrape the mixture into the tin and press down gently with the back of a spoon.

7. Put into the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes.

8. Lift carefully out of the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin.

9. Melt the chocolate in short bursts in the microwave or a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water.

10. Once the flapjack is completely cold, spread with the melted chocolate and pop in the fridge to set for about an hour before cutting into fingers.

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Lizi’s Breakfast Range is available from Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Ocado, Asda, Morrisons, Whole Foods, Co-Op, Booths and all good health stores.

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