Gooey and yummy Spelt Banoffee Flapjacks with Dark Chocolate are healthier than your average flapjack!
Today I’m sharing my Spelt Banoffee Flapjacks with Dark Chocolate with you!
It was my mother’s birthday last week and one of the home-baked treats we had was a lovely chocolate flapjack.
I came away with the recipe (it was one from her head) and decided to give it a makeover.
I was toying with adding apple but on seeing a very ripe small banana in the bowl decided it might be perfect for a Banoffee flavour. Then I decided to use some Organic Spelt Porridge Oats in the cupboard too.
Well, the result was a very healthy(ish), gooey and tasty flapjack!
The spelt porridge flakes have a lovely grainy texture and are packed with fibre and minerals that you don’t get with ordinary porridge oats. Dark chocolate is also good for you and contains iron and bananas packed with potassium, so I think these flapjacks are a very virtuous treat.
My son is currently studying for his GCSEs, and I keep stressing to him how good bananas are for you, particularly for the brain and memory.
My Spelt Banoffee Flapjacks with Dark Chocolate didn’t last long here as everyone had a couple of slices after dinner the other night.
These flapjacks would be a great treat to put in your kid’s lunch boxes or to take on a picnic.
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Spelt Banoffee Flapjacks with Dark Chocolate
Ingredients
- 75 g Butter lightly salted
- 75 g Light Brown Muscovado sugar
- 1 Small ripe banana (about 120g in skin), mashed
- 125 g Spelt porridge flakes or porridge oats
- 50 g Dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180⁰C.
- Grease and line a 17.5cm/7” round shallow cake tin.
- Melt the butter and sugar in a saucepan over low heat until melted.
- Stir in the mashed banana.
- Add the spelt porridge flakes and mix in thoroughly.
- Tip the mixture into the cake tin and pat down and even surface with the back of a spoon.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes or until firm to the touch and golden.
- Whilst still warm mark into 8 sections and allow to cool in tin.
- Once cool remove from tin and place on a wire rack.
- Meanwhile melt the 50g of dark chocolate over a bowl of barely simmering water.
- Pour chocolate over the middle of the cooled flapjack and spread in a circular motion with the back of a spoon.
- Allow to cool before cutting up and serving.
Alison MacDonald
This looks really good it’s quite different from the usual flapjacks 🙂
Camilla
Thanks, they seem to be proving really popular with readers and family alike;-)
James Travis
Great recipe
kris
looks amazing!
Ursula Hunt
Passed this onto my daughter who was delighted
Camilla
Fabulous:-)
Sarah James
Yum, bananas & chocolate. I’ve never tried spelt oats before, on my shopping list 🙂
Camilla
I should really try making some porridge with them now LOL;-)
Sarah Maison Cupcake
I love a flapjack and they’re never better than when half dipped in chocolate. These look fab!
Camilla
Thanks Sarah, yes the chocolate just takes Flapjak to another level:-)
Carolann99
These look mouth-watering x
Camilla
Thank you Caralann:-)
Paul Wilson
Make a great special treat.
michelleclaire
Looking at these make me very hungry, WANT!
tracy sinclair
My kind of treat, shame I’m on a diet, they sound lovely, or maybe they don’t contain many calories 🙂
Camilla
Calories with plenty of nutrients and fibre so far better than a slab of cake:-)