I decided I would make some homemade cereal bars as they would contain less sugar than shopbought, so I could eat more. Anyway I made some and they are very nice, BUT, whilst looking for ideas I came across one for toffee apple shortbread!!!
You know the millionaire shortbread with the biscuit base, then toffee layer then chocolate?? Well those but with pieces of caramelised apple in the toffee - OMG heaven in a biscuit - and one of your 5 a day!
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la_spice
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 14:08:12
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brokendownangel
Pro - Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 14:19:16
OK, make shortbread base by creaming 110g soft butter with 40g caster sugar til pale and fluffy, mix in 175g plain flour and 10g cornflour with your hands til it comes together as a dough. Press into a square tin that has been lined with baking paper and bake 20 mins til golden in 160 degree oven. Remove and leave to cool.
chop half a dozen apples into little pieces and fry off in a little butter sprinkled with demarara sugar - don't stir, just shake it until the apples caramelise. Mix with either a jar of toffee spread or with a tin of condensed milk that you have boiled in the tin in a pan covered with water for about an hour, left to cool then opened - I often have them ready in the fridge just in case I fancy some over ice-cream or sticky toffee pud. Spread the toffee apple mix over the base still in the tin. Leave to chill in fridge for about an hour
Cover the whole thing with 200g chocolate melted and leave at room temp to cool then remove from tin and slice
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la_spice
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 15:34:29
Ooooo - thanks
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Jenniebaby
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 14:19:10
Thta sounds lovely - maybe I can make for Halloween
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brokendownangel
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- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 14:23:02
Yeah that would be lovely, you only need small slices though it is very rich x
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Jenniebaby
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 14:47:25
That depends who you're feeding
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brokendownangel
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- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 15:03:02
LOL yeah it does I guess
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malakeas
Pro - http://www.blog.co.uk/user/malakeas
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 16:17:23
That sounds decadent! Yum! X
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Who said 'shedding the pounds' need be without pleasure????
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brokendownangel
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- Thursday, 29. Oct, 2009 @ 09:23:59
I don't think much pound shedding is going on somehow
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sweetymon
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 19:07:30
I'm drooling, that sounds so amazing. Haven't made flapjacks in ages, used to love making (and eating) them. Thanks for the idea!
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awww yum, but too much effort for me! can i have the recipe for cereal bars? I made fruit flapjacks last weekend but they are more like fruit clusters and crumbs!
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brokendownangel
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- Thursday, 29. Oct, 2009 @ 09:34:17
Yep, here you go
Into a bowl tip
1 cup rolled oats and 1 cup of high fibre cereal (anything you have will do or just more oats for a kind of flapjack)
1 cup dried fruit
3 tbspns roasted nuts or seeds
quarter cup dessicated coconut or flaked almonds
*mess about with the last 3 ingredients for different flavours depending on what you like - I use grated apple soaked in orange juice sometimes and just add a little more oats so it's not too wet, pumpkin seeds are lovely as are cherries, dried apricots - the list is endless
warm the following in a pan until just melted together
6tbspns honey
4tbspns sunflower oil
quarter of a cup of tightly packed soft light brown sugar - if you wanna be really healthy you could use a few tbsps sweetner instead
4 tbsps peanut butter
Pour into the bowl and mix really well - shove the lot in a lined square tin and bake in 180 degree oven for about 25 mins until golden - leave to cool in tin then remove and cut into slices - i freeze some and get them out a few at a time -
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Sounds yummy! But you can guarentte that Id burn it
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boredrich
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 21:19:25
oh my god I am gonna give those a go
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QueeneMab
- Wednesday, 28. Oct, 2009 @ 22:10:19
Sounds yummy. BTW, an easy way to make toffee is to boil up a a pound of sugar with a small tin of evaporated milk 2 table spoons of golden syrup and 2 ozs of butter. You boil it hard continually stirring till the toffee starts to pull down and hard on the spoon takes about 20 mins to half an hour. Then do the soft ball or hard ball test by dropping a little toffee into cold water. Soft ball is best for millionaires shortbread.
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brokendownangel
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- Thursday, 29. Oct, 2009 @ 11:04:54
ooh that sounds fabulous x
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MissyMouse
- Thursday, 29. Oct, 2009 @ 00:47:18
Slurp.....
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Artisam
- Friday, 30. Oct, 2009 @ 20:14:46
Nom nom.. I love them
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Come on - share the recipe