Oat And Date Slices Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, combine oats, pastry flour, salt, 1 cup brown sugar, and baking soda. Mix in the butter until crumbly. Press half of the mixture into the bottom of a 9 inch square baking pan.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the dates, water, and 1/3 cup brown sugar. Bring to a boil, and cook until thickened. Stir in lemon juice, and remove from heat. Spread the filling over the base, and pat the remaining crumb mixture on top.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in preheated oven, or until top is lightly toasted. Cool before cutting into squares.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150C and line a baking tin with paper - don't grease it, the flapjack mixture will be greasy enough.
• Simmer dates and 25g of the sugar with 4 tablespoons of water. The dates will become soft and the water will be absorbed. Give the dates a brisk mix with a fork to make them paste-like, if necessary add a little more water and cook for longer. I also added some allspice and cinnamon.
• Mix oats, sugar, sunflower seeds and flour together. (I added a handful of pumpkin seeds and replaced 25g flour with oats.).
• Melt the syrup and butter together then stir into the dry mixture.
• Spread half the flapjack mixture in the tin, then spread all the date paste over it. Spread the remaining half of the flapjack mixture on top. Quite difficult to spread, so dot spoonfuls around and squash them out.
• Bake for 45 minutes and allow to cool slightly before cutting into bars.