Fruit, oat & seed bars

30-60 minutes 400 kcal or less apricot apricots beginners breakfast bars butter chewy oat bars cranberries cranberry dried fruit easy baking flapjacks fruit and nut bars golden syrup light muscovado sugar oats raisin raisins rolled oats sesame snack bars walnut walnuts

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Makes 16

Source

Ingredients

140g light muscovado sugar

3 tbsp golden syrup

140g butter

250g rolled oats

85g raisin or sultanas

85g walnut pieces (or use your favourite nuts, roughly chopped)

50g sesame or mixed seeds

25g dried cranberry

50g ready-to-eat apricot , finely chopped

Method

Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Gently heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter in a pan until the sugar and butter have both melted. Stir the oats, raisins, walnuts, seeds and cranberries into the pan until coated in the butter.

Spoon half the oaty mix into a traybake tin (23 x 23cm or thereabouts). Scatter the apricots over the top, then top with the remaining oat mix. Pack the mix down well and smooth with the back of a metal spoon. Bake for 35 mins or until dark golden. Leave to cool completely before cutting into 16 bars with a sharp knife.