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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 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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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 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

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 %

% 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 20 bars : 5.10 €
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:
	Brown sugar: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Soft apple cookies, Tyrolean apple crumble, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Caribbean upside-down cake, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Roasted Cauliflower, Nanou's apple and almond cake, Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream , Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux, Flognarde, ... All
	Rolled oats: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Oatmeal and apple cookies, Moist cereal bars, Canadian apple crumble, Oaty walnut cake , Granola, ... All

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