We’re pleased with this delicious flapjack recipe using no refined sugar. It is packed with vitamins and minerals such as calcium and iron from the oats and natural antioxidants from the honey.
Most flapjacks contain plenty of refined sugar, typically from Golden Syrup, so we wanted to create something that whilst still a treat, was that bit less naughty.
Do also see the New Improved Even Better Flapjacks.
Serves: 10-15 squares
Ingredients
- 250g runny honey
- 220g rolled oats
- 30g desiccated coconut
- 150g butter (if you like you can use half coconut oil and butter)
- a good pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven 180C.
- Line a baking tray or 20 x 20cm approx. cake tin with silicone/non-stick greaseproof paper.
- Simply place the butter and honey into a saucepan and heat until the butter has dissolved and it's all come together.
- Then add your desiccated coconut, oats and good pinch of salt.
- Pour into your prepared tin and cook for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. You don't want to overcook as it will end up dry and crumbly. I usually slightly undercook mine so it's a bit gooey. However, do make sure its totally cool before cutting.
what’s Honey, if it’s not sugar in solution – idiots
Sorry it should have said no “refined” sugars in it. Obviously honey is a sugar – or I should say “sweetener”, however if you had read the first line of the recipe intro you might have seen that.
Thank you for pointing it out though.
It’s a much healthier form and so is better for you. Of course it won’t remedy how rude you are though.
Just what I was looking for Thank You! I used to make mine with golden syrup but I can’t get that easily now I live in France. These sound much healthier 🙂
Sugar is sugar don’t be fooled thinking there’s good and bad sugar if it’s golden syrup or honey what makes it a problem is when it enters the body in this recipe the body will burn the huge amount of fat first then as it doesn’t need to burn the carbs insulin will convert them to fat and store it in the liver, pancreas and stomach muscles( look up nonalcoholic liver cerosis) nice recipe but don’t falsely claim healthy food status
These are the kind of things I’ve been looking everywhere for, so thankyou. Do you have any ideas about coconut alternatives as I’m not a big fan of the taste? (I’m allergic to peanuts but fine with other nuts) Many thanks
Hello Nicki – lovely to hear from you. Butter would work well? Also re the taste of coconut oil there are some really good brands out there that now do them with out any coconut taste at all (off the top of my head Bionia do a good one I think its called cuisine coconut oil and its not too expensive either). Anyway I hope this works and thanks for the support.
G xx
Do I need more oats than called for by chance? The flapjacks just aren’t firming up in the oven. Thank you
You shouldn’t need to add any more oats – however the kind of oats you use is going to effect the end result. Ideally you would be using the large rolled oats as the finer ones absorb more… I hope they worked out alright for you in the end? Many thanks for getting in touch xx
I agree it’s outrageous to bill this as healthy as he main issue with flap jacks is sugar and this
Does nothing to address that, honey is sugar!
There are many other recipes that don’t use honey so if people want heathly they should look elsewhere
So misleading
(note rating system broken only allows you to rate 5 stars!!! It’s definitely not a 5 star recipe!! )
Thank you for your comments. We obviously are aware that honey is a natural sweetener and of course don’t want to try and delude people into thinking any different – our main aim is to try and make people more aware of the ingredients they use and improve the nutrients to their food. Of course these particular flapjacks should be considered a treat, however nutritionally they would be better than “normal” flapjacks made with refined sugars etc.
We wrote this particular recipe years ago – times seemed to have changed hugely in terms of health and peoples awareness of nutrition and the only recipes you could find then were flapjacks made with sugar or golden syrup – we’ve not been able to keep up with amending all our recipes but we will continue to try. Anyway thank you for your comments
Love this recipe thank you!
Hello girls, great flapjacks and went down well with the family, Iam also a bee keeper and honey is the best kind of sweetner and is far more better for you in everyway.
Us bee keepers are always in talks with defra and the n f u and thay still agree that hoey is the best.
Bob the bee keeper
Love this recipe as well as the healthier date version. Added small amounts of Chia, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, chopped apricots, raisins and cherries.
Cut into pieces once completely cooled and even chilled. Freezes well. Great for packed lunches and picnics.
So pleased you like the recipe – your adaption sounds delicious! xx
a lover of flap jacks but tend not to eat as high in sugar + carb (oats)
Lovely recipe and images but
its important to note that whether we use sugar, honey or any other form of sugar, the same amount of insulin is required.
calorie content is also the same in honey and sugar
Regardless of calories, the benefits of honey compared to refined sugars are much better.
Also apart from health these so delicious and I was dubious as I love traditional flapjacks.
I used almonds as I bad no coconut and I would definitely make these again!
Love this recipe! Some people are so damn rude on the internet! If you don’t agree just move on!! ♀️
Anyway, thank you! Baking these right now