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By Anna, 5 October, 2011 11:52 am

I’ll be honest, I made these on the spur of the moment and didn’t bother photographing the process because I thought, well, you know, how great can they be really? Answer, really great! Very flapjack-ish.

This is a recipe from Bill Granger’s ‘Every Day’; I’ve made them before and they were nice, but I made a couple of very minor changes and I preferred them this way. I haven’t been doing much in the way of baking recently, so maybe the reason behind the great response was more about the miracle of baked goods on a cooling rack than anything else. Leave them wanting more. I like my men grateful.

*Update* I made another batch and, bowing to chocolate pressure from child, used chocolate covered raisins. A big hit, so you might consider that too.

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By Anna, 26 May, 2010 10:20 am

Or should it be Muesola?
Yes that’s right – granola meets muesli.
Before now, I have made muesli and I have also made granola. Muesli is great, fine, but I’m not the biggest fan of dried fruits, so my options are limited. Granola is great, very nice in fact, but can be too hard or too chewy and I hate the thought of over-developed jaw muscles. So unseemly…
Wouldn’t it be nice, I pondered, to have the concept of Granola in a more muesli form…

So I tried and I liked it. Oh, yes, I liked it. Slightly sweetened with that toasted oat flapjack aroma; it’s nutritious and tasty. It’s versatile too – change the fruit, increase or omit the nuts, change the sweetness… whatever rings your bell.

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