Recipe: fruit and almond flapjacks
Slash your youngster's sugar intake by swapping shop brought breakfast bars for a healthier, homemade fruit and almond flapjack.
Ingredients:
- 2 bananas
- 70g soft prunes - chopped
- 70g flaked almonds
- 100g muesli - I used a fruit and nut muesli mix to create a crunchier consistency
- 40g homemade granola.
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
- Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl until a smooth consistency is created - this will be the bars' base.
- Stir in the remaining ingredients - prunes, muesli/granola and flaked almonds - and continue to mix until thoroughly combined with the mashed banana.
- Transfer the mixture into a shallow baking tin spritzed with fry light extra virgin olive oil spray (a wooden spoon can be used to level it out) before baking for 25 minutes - the mixture should be firm to the touch and golden brown by this point.
- Once baked and cooled, slice into sensibly sized portions/bars before serving as a speedy and satisfying snack.
Top tip: if these nutty nibbles fail to tickle your tot's taste buds, opt for 150g of homemade granola (free from nuts) as opposed to a fruit and nut muesli mix, and create bites (petite portions) as an alternative to bars - the remaining initial ingredients can still be used to create the bites base (banana) and compliment their crunchy texture (prunes and flaked almonds) without the worry of them being too nutty.
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