I love flapjacks with lots of lovely ingredients but it isn't practical to buy six 250g bags of different types of dried fruit to use a few grams of each. As a lover of the Dorset Cereals Muesli I had a few varieties in my cupboard so I used it to make a flapjack to see what would happen.
This muesli made up of 50% fruit and contains cranberries, blueberries, cherries, blackcurrants, raspberries, sultanas and raisins as well as oat, wheat and barley flakes so I was pretty confident it would work well.
I used a tin which had a loose bottom, I don't recommend this as the melted butter leaks through onto the bottom of your oven and burns, but I wanted to use the long and fluted shaped tin to make the flapjack prettier as it was a present so I slid a tray on the bottom of the oven to catch the goo.
Flapjack. Such an odd word.
You will see in the recipe, that you can choose to add more or less butter depending on whether you prefer a chewy or crunchy flapjack, more butter equals a chewier finish (Delia's idea not mine so I can't take credit!) I used less butter but it was perfect for my taste; chewy in the middle with slightly crisp, crunchy edges. I turned the oven up at the end for 10 minutes to create this finish.
