Blackberry & Pecan Flapjacks

Flapjacks are such a versatile sweet treat, and you can have a lot of fun experimenting with different flavour combinations.

Growing your own ingredients makes any dish that much more rewarding, and if you’ve got blackberries ready to harvest – or you’re thinking of growing some – we’ve got just the recipe for you.

Deliciously sweet, buttery, and slightly tart, we’re big fans of these blackberry and pecan flapjacks.

Ingredients

200g butter

3 tbsp golden syrup

275g porridge oats

100g flour

100g caster sugar

100g brown sugar

100g pecans, roughly chopped

75g dates, chopped

Zest of one lemon

350g fresh blackberries

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C / 180°C fan.

Gently melt the butter and golden syrup in a large heavy based pan, then remove from the heat.

Add all the remaining ingredients, except the blackberries, and stir well until thoroughly combined.

Place a sheet of baking paper in a 20cm x 25cm shallow tin.

Place half of the flapjack mix in the tin and gently smooth the surface.

Sprinkle the blackberries evenly over the base layer.

Top with the remaining flapjack mix and smooth over as before.

Bake in the oven for approximately 50 minutes, or until golden in colour.

Allow to partially cool before cutting into squares.

Blackberry Karaka Black Fruit Plant (Floricane)

£22.95
£22.95

Early season A superb and reliable variety, originating from New Zealand. The summer flowers are followed by huge, shiny black berries that are firm, easy to pick and above all packed with flavour. A long picking period up until the middle of August and very productive once established. The berries are superb for freezing and ideal for all-purpose use. We offer all our potted fruit plants in 2ltr pots, this will give you an older, more established plant with a bigger root ball than those offered in 9cm pots. The extra space gives the roots more room to grow, which in turn allows them to absorb more nutrients leading to a stronger plant that will establish more quickly and fruit more prolifically to begin with. Floricane varieties fruit on canes produced in the previous year while Primocane varieties produce fruits on current season growth.

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