This recipe is from “Mummy and Me cookbook, by Annabel Karmel. Makes 8 big bars, or 16 smaller squares. I doubled the recipe last time and it made a lot of them!

Ingredients

You can substitute any sort of nut, dried fruit or seed, so long as you keep the ratios roughly the same.

• 80g butter
• 80g light brown sugar
• 60g golden syrup (or treacle or molasses)
• 130g oats
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 large dried apricots (or other dried fruit you have handy)
• 35g raisins (or sultanas or currents)
• 35g dried cranberries
• 30g desiccated coconut
• 30g pecans, pumpkin seeds, or any other nut or seed.

Method

1. Melt butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan over low heat
2. Put the rest of the ingredients into a big bowl. Cutting larger ones down as necessary.
3. Add the melted mixture to the dry ingredients
4. Mix until everything is combined
5. Spoon it into a lined baking tray, and use a potato masher to level the surface
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 20 min
7. Cut into bars or squares, and store in an airtight container