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Chocolate cereal bars

These have a chocolate sweetcrust pastry base, topped with dried fruit, toasted nuts and seeds, bound with a brown-sugar and butter mixture, then gently baked.

Once the flapjack-like cake has cooled, it can be cut into bars.

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Last modified on: July 11^th 2018

For 20 bars, you will need:

1 200 g Chocolate sweetcrust pastry
2 60 g pistachios
3 20 g sesame seeds
4 100 g dried apricots
5 100 g raisins
6 120 g rolled oats
7 125 g butter
8 125 g brown sugar
Total weight: 850 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	53 min.	1 hour 18 min.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #1

Chocolate sweetcrust base

Preheat the oven to 340°F (170°C.)

Roll out 200 g Chocolate sweetcrust pastry.

Use an 8 inch (20 cm) patisserie square as your guide.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #2

Cut the pastry to fit the square and lay on a baking sheet with the metal square over it.

Prick the pastry all over with a fork or pique-vite (pastry pricker).

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #3

Bake for about 15 minutes, then leave to cool with the square in place.

Do not turn the oven off.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #4

Nut, seed and fruit mixture

Weigh out 60 g pistachios and 20 g sesame seeds, then spread these on a baking sheet. Toast them in the oven for 10 minutes.

Take out of the oven and leave to cool.

Do not turn the oven off.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #5

Cut 100 g dried apricots into small pieces.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #6

Put into a bowl: the pistachios, sesame seeds, apricots, 100 g raisins and 120 g rolled oats.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #7

Put 125 g butter and 125 g brown sugar into a saucepan on medium heat and bring to the boil while whisking.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #8

Add the fruit, nut and seed mixture. Mix well.

Cook while stirring constantly for about 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #9

Tip the mixture into the square over the chocolate sweetcrust base and spread evenly with the back of a tablespoon.

Stage 10 - 20 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #10

Baking and cutting

Bake for about 20 minutes.

When cooked, take out of the oven and remove the metal square while hot (it's easier), then leave to cool.

Stage 11 - 7 min.

Chocolate cereal bars : Photo of step #11

Cut up with a serrated knife into bars about half an inch by 4 inches (1,5 x 10 cm).

Remarks

You can vary the fruit, nuts and seeds in this recipe. For example, use cranberries instead of apricots, or hazelnuts insted of pistachios. But it is best to stick with oats as the base.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,856 Kcal or 11,958 Kj	39 gr	310 gr	163 gr
143 %	15 %	29 %	25 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
336 Kcal or 1,407 Kj	5 gr	36 gr	19 gr
17 %	2 %	3 %	3 %

Per bars
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
143 Kcal or 599 Kj	2 gr	15 gr	8 gr
7 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 20 bars : 5.62 €
Per bars : 0.28 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Chocolate sweetcrust pastry: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example:
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tea and white chocolate biscuits, Lime (or lemon) curd, Salmon and Spinach Gratin, Muffin dough, Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche), ... All
	Brown sugar: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Moist cereal bars, Cocktails, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Quince and apple compote, European glass, ... All
	Rolled oats: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Oat shortbread biscuits, Oaty walnut cake , Cranachan, Oatmeal cake, ... All

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