Super-Quick Flapjacks

This is going to be the fastest recipe I’m likely to put on my blog - if you have a microwave, it can be made in just 6 minutes, including weighing out the ingredients! Admittedly, you do need to let it cool for at least an hour after that so that it slices well, but even so…

It’s a recipe I first came up with when I was editing BBC Easy Cook magazine and we were doing a a series on making more of your microwave. I came across it in my recipe file (yes, sometimes I am really well organised!) recently and thought it would be perfect as part of my contribution to yesterday’s Village Halls Week event in our very own beloved village hall here. (And yep, Village Halls Week really is a thing!). The flapjacks went down very well but personally I thought they were a bit too sweet, having not tasted the recipe for years. This version uses half the amount of sugar and, I think, is all the better for it, with a nice balance of sweet and sharp with the dried fruit.

For the fruit, I used some of the leftover Waitrose Vine Fruit Mix from the Christmas pud I blogged about in December, but any plump, juicy raisins would be good, and semi-dried apricots are lovely in the recipe too.