Salted Caramel Flapjacks

Salted caramel is a flavour combination I love and recently I've found

a really easy way to add this flavour to flapjacks, a baked treat I make quite

often for the family. I've looked at a few recipes for salted caramel flapjacks

and in most of them you have to make the caramel. It seems to be a bit of a faff,

I just use shop-bought salted caramel sauce. It's easy and quick and the result

has that nice combination of salty and sweet which is what I'm after. I've had to

tweak my recipe a few times but I'm finally happy with it and I thought I'd

share it here with you.

Ingredients:

175 grams   unsalted butter

150 grams  demerara sugar

                     1 tablespoon    golden syrup                           

          3 tablespoons   salted caramel sauce*

350grams  porridge oats

1/2teaspoon   sea salt flakes, plus extra to sprinkle

Pre-heat the oven to 180 C degrees. Grease and line with baking parchment

a square 8x8inch baking tin.

In a bowl, mix together the oats and sea salt flakes. Set aside.

Melt together the butter, sugar, golden syrup and caramel sauce in a saucepan

over low heat. Stir in the oats and sea salt. Mix well and turn into the prepared

baking tin. Press flat with the back of a spoon and sprinkle a pinch or two

of sea salt on top.

Bake in the pre-heated oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown.

Leave to cool for a few minutes then mark into 16 squares. Leave to finish

cooling in the tin.

*I use salted caramel sauce from Aldi and Waitrose. They're both good.

I've tried this brand before but for brownies. I think it would be great, too, but

I haven't been able to find it in any of the local supermarkets lately.

Thank you for your lovely comments on my previous post. I hope we'll have
 a really good spring season this year - lots of blue skies and sunshine and
not too much rain.

See you soon! x