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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

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For 10 bars, you will need:

1 ½ cup Chocolate sweetcrust pastry
2 2 tablespoons pistachios
3 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
4 ¼ cup dried apricots
5 ¼ cup raisins
6 ²⁄₃ cup rolled oats
7 ¹⁄₃ cup butter
8 ¹⁄₃ cup brown sugar

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25 min.	53 min.	1 hour 18 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Chocolate sweetcrust base

Preheat the oven to 340°F (170°C.)

Roll out ½ cup Chocolate sweetcrust pastry.

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

Stage 2 - 3 min.

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.

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

Do not turn the oven off.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Nut, seed and fruit mixture

Weigh out 2 tablespoons pistachios and 1 tablespoon 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.

Cut ¼ cup dried apricots into small pieces.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Put into a bowl: the pistachios, sesame seeds, apricots, ¼ cup raisins and ²⁄₃ cup rolled oats.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Put ¹⁄₃ cup butter and ¹⁄₃ cup brown sugar into a saucepan on medium heat and bring to the boil while whisking.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

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

Cook while stirring constantly for about 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

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

Stage 10 - 20 min.

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.

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.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,434 Kcal or 6,004 Kj	20 gr	159 gr	82 gr
72 %	8 %	15 %	12 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
337 Kcal or 1,411 Kj	5 gr	37 gr	19 gr
17 %	2 %	4 %	3 %

Per bars
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
143 Kcal or 599 Kj	2 gr	16 gr	8 gr
7 %	1 %	2 %	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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten, Nuts, Sesame, Sulfites

How much will it cost?

For 10 bars : 2.55 €
Per bars : 0.26 €

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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: Panettone, Clarified butter, Breton sablé biscuit dough, Mushroom bourguignon, Steak burger topped with egg, ... All
	Brown sugar: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Brownies, Flaky brownie brioche, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Hazelnut and orange cake, Tarte à l'coloche, ... All
	Rolled oats: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Tyrolean apple crumble, Soft apple cookies, Moist cereal bars, Oatmeal and apple cookies, ... All

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