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.
Once the flapjack-like cake has cooled, it can be cut into bars.
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Last modified on: July 11th 2018
Keywords for this recipe:PastrySnackingCerealsChocolateDry fruitsFor 20 bars, you will need:
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1 cup Chocolate sweetcrust pastry - 1
1⁄3 cup pistachios - 2
1 ½ tablespoon sesame seeds - 3
½ cup dried apricots - 4
½ cup raisins - 5
1 1⁄3 cup rolled oats - 6
2⁄3 cup butter - 7
2⁄3 cup brown sugar
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 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 1 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).
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.
Do not turn the oven off.
Stage 4 - 10 min.
Nut, seed and fruit mixture
Weigh out 1⁄3 cup pistachios and 1 ½ 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.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Put into a bowl: the pistachios, sesame seeds, apricots, ½ cup raisins and 1 1⁄3 cup rolled oats.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Stage 8 - 3 min.
Add the fruit, nut and seed mixture. Mix well.
Cook while stirring constantly for about 2 or 3 minutes.
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.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,856 Kcal or 11,958 Kj | 40 gr | 318 gr | 163 gr |
| 143 % | 15 % | 30 % | 25 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 336 Kcal or 1,407 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 % | 1 % | 1 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Chocolate sweetcrust pastry: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: |
 | Brown sugar: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Plum and hazelnut crumble, Sweet pancake rolls from Brittany, Quince and apple compote, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, European glass, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leek and egg frichti, Passion fruit jellies, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, Montbenoit's canapés, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, ... All |
 | Rolled oats: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Cranachan, Oat shortbread biscuits, Canadian apple crumble, ... All |
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