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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.

47 K 3/5 (3 reviews)

1 hour 20 min. difficulté

Easy

5.10 €

20 bars

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: July 11^th 2018

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For 20 bars, you will need:

1 200 ml chocolate sweetcrust pastry
2 60 ml pistachios
3 20 ml sesame seeds
4 100 ml dried apricots
5 100 ml raisins
6 300 ml rolled oats
7 129 ml butter
8 125 ml brown sugar

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 25 min.

Cooking: 55 min.

All in all: 1 hour 20 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 200 ml 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 60 ml pistachios and 20 ml 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 100 ml dried apricots into small pieces.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Put into a bowl: the pistachios, sesame seeds, apricots, 100 ml raisins and 300 ml rolled oats.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Put 129 ml butter and 125 ml 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

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	50 RDI=20 %	450 RDI=40 %	210 RDI=30 %	3,690 RDI=190 %	15,460 RDI: 190 %
Per 100 g	6 RDI=2 %	50 RDI=5 %	20 RDI=4 %	430 RDI=20 %	1,820 RDI: 20 %
Per bars	2 RDI=1 %	20 RDI=2 %	10 RDI=2 %	180 RDI=9 %	770 RDI: 9 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per 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 20 bars : 5.10 €
Per bars : 0.30 €

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