Sweet & Spiced Oat-Cakes

These are essentially fruit flapjacks with spices. Soft, sweet, buttery and flavoursome.
High in fat, sugar and carbohydrate, I made them for easy breakfasts.
This is an original recipe, I made it up myself.

Step 1 Ingredients

>Rolled oat flakes - 250g
>Salted butter - 200g
>Honey - 100g
>Dried chopped dates - 100g
>Unrefined raw cane sugar - 50g
>Glace cherries - 50g
>Dried powdered ginger- 4 level tsp
>Dried powdered cinnamon - 4 level tsp
>Dried cloves - 6
>Dried (green) cardamom pod - 9 seeds from inside

Other fruit of the same mass can be substituted, sugars can be swapped, and I guess you could use different fat too. I didn't use the bag of mixed fruit in this batch, but initially intended to.

Comments

[m.maritan22]

this looks weird

[scoochmaroo]

I think I'm going to try this without the cane sugar and with applesauce instead of butter. I'm sure they won't be as good, but I'm definitely looking for something like this for breakfast without the extra fat and sugar!

[lemonie]

Apple sauce sounds interesting, I would consider adding something like baking powder to a mixture with a higher water-content - what do you think?

L

[scoochmaroo]

That sounds like a good idea. I've been experimenting with vital wheat gluten for creating volume in baked goods, but in this instance baking powder seems more appropriate. Or corn starch!

[lemonie]

Well I guess we'll see in due course.

L

[jrossetti]

I will try this first thing in the morning. Looks awesome, thanks lemonie!

[jrossetti]

I used too much butter, they didn't hold together very well, but they tasted great!

[joeslops]

They do look good, I'd love to try a couple.

[justjonty]

Oh they look really tasty... I need food like this... I lose weight by simply breathing so this looks just the ticket!

[lemonie]

Filling too...

L