Soft and chewy double chocolate chip flapjacks recipe with a melted chocolate drizzle topping. Perfect for snacks, picnics, and bake sales!
These delicious, energy-boosting chocolate oat bars, made with store-cupboard ingredients, are so easy to make!
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Flapjacks are my go-to bake for taking on beach picnics and packing into lunchboxes because they're robust and travel well.
They're buttery, rich and oh so moreish! You won't be able to stop at just one.
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✔️ Why should you try it?
- Quick and easy to make flapjack recipe.
- Uses store cupboard ingredients.
- Great for chocolate lovers.
- Perfect for picnics and bake sales.
- Freezer-friendly.
🥘 Ingredients
- Oats - use ordinary rolled oats for this recipe, not jumbo oats or instant oats.
- Chocolate Chips - a packet each of white chocolate and milk chocolate chips.
- Butter - unsalted butter is best but you can also use margarine.
- Golden Syrup - or use clear runny honey instead.
- Sugar - demerara sugar gives the flapjacks a lovely texture and crunch. Feel free to substitute with light brown sugar or caster sugar if you prefer.
- Chocolate - for the drizzle topping I used a combination of melted white and dark chocolate.
🔪 Instructions
The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post
- Melt the butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan over a medium heat. Leave to cool for 5 minutes.
- Place the oats and chocolate chips in a bowl and pour on the cooled melted butter mixture.
- Stir to combine
- Press the mixture into a baking tin and press down with the back of a spoon.
- Bake for 30 minutes then score into squares whilst still warm with a sharp knife.
- Once cooled, drizzle melted white and dark chocolate over the top of the flapjacks and leave to set. Cut into squares with a sharp knife.
💭 Top tips
- Leave the melted butter mixture to cool for 5 minutes to prevent the chocolate chips from melting instantly. It's nice to find little chocolate chip nuggets in the soft and chewy flapjack!
- Use rolled oats rather than jumbo oats or instant oats in this recipe. Rolled oats produce the best-textured flapjack.
- Bake the flapjack in a 20 x 30cm baking tin, lined with baking paper to prevent the flapjack from sticking. Using a different size will affect cooking time.
- If the top is looking a bit too brown before the end of cooking, cover the tin in a loose layer of kitchen foil.
- Score the flapjack into squares as soon as the flapjack comes out of the oven, but wait until the flapjack is cold before cutting it into squares.
🍴 Serving suggestions
Serve the flapjacks with a glass of cold milk or a cup of tea for a delicious afternoon snack.
I sometimes serve them as an easy pudding with homemade honeycomb ice cream.
📖 Variations
- Make the flapjacks vegan by using a vegan butter alternative and vegan-friendly chocolate.
- Add a handful of dried fruit or nuts to the mixture for added texture and crunch.
- Use all milk or dark chocolate chips if you don't like white chocolate.
- Add the zest of 1 orange to make chocolate orange flapjacks and top the flapjack with melted orange flavoured chocolate.
🥡 Storage
The flapjacks will keep in an airtight tin for up to a week. They can also be frozen in a freezer-safe container, between layers of baking paper, for up to 3 months.
❓ FAQS
Flapjacks will feel soft to the touch, when they first come out of the oven but will harden up as they cool down.
Yes, you can use honey instead of golden syrup but it will give the flapjacks a slightly different flavour. I prefer golden syrup in flapjacks as it gives a lovely sweetness that just can't be replicated with any other ingredient.
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Recipe
Easy Chocolate Chip Flapjacks Recipe
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Ingredients
- 200 g Butter unsalted
- 200 g Demerara Sugar
- 200 g Golden Syrup
- 400 g Oats use rolled oats, not jumbo or instant
- 100 g White Chocolate Chips
- 100 g Milk Chocolate Chips
For the topping
- 50 g White Chocolate melted
- 50 g Dark Chocolate melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°c (160 fan/ Gas 4/ 350F) and line a 20 x 30cm baking tin with baking paper.
- Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a saucepan over a low heat until everything is fully melted and combined. Leave to cool down for 5 minutes.200 g Butter, 200 g Demerara Sugar, 200 g Golden Syrup
- Place the oats and chocolate chips in a mixing bowl and pour on the cooled melted butter mixture. Give everything a good stir.400 g Oats, 100 g White Chocolate Chips, 100 g Milk Chocolate Chips
- Press the mixture into the tin and bake for 30 minutes. The flapjack will be quite soft when you take it out of the oven but will harden up on cooling.
- Whilst the flapjack is still warm, use a sharp knife to score it into squares. Leave to cool fully.
- Drizzle the melted white and dark chocolate over the top and leave to set.50 g White Chocolate, 50 g Dark Chocolate
- Use a sharp knife to cut the flapjack into squares.
Notes
- Leave the melted butter mixture to cool for 5 minutes to prevent the chocolate chips from melting instantly. It's nice to find little chocolate chip nuggets in the soft and chewy flapjack!
- Use rolled oats rather than jumbo oats or instant oats in this recipe. Rolled oats produce the best-textured flapjack.
- Bake the flapjack in a 20 x 30cm baking tin, lined with baking paper to prevent the flapjack from sticking. Using a different size will affect cooking time.
- If the top is looking a bit too brown before the end of cooking, cover the tin in a loose layer of kitchen foil.
- Score the flapjack squares as soon as the flapjack comes out of the oven but wait until the flapjack is cold before cutting into squares. Use a sharp knife to make life easier.
- Make the flapjacks vegan by using a vegan butter alternative and vegan-friendly chocolate.
- Add a handful of dried fruit or nuts to the mixture for added texture and crunch.
- Use all milk or dark chocolate chips if you don't like white chocolate.
- Add the zest of 1 orange to make chocolate orange flapjacks and top the flapjack with melted orange flavoured chocolate.
Nutritional Information (Approximate)
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Biana says
You can't go wrong with oats and chocolate combination, that's for sure! Looks delicious.
Sharon says
Double the chocolate goodness in this hearty breakfast. The perfect way to start the morning.
Claudia Lamascolo says
Chocolate and flapjacks I'm in! pass me a fork yummy!
Jen says
The drizzle on top put these into "out of this world delicious" status! I gave some to my neighbors and they already texted asking for the recipe, haha! I'd call them a hit, for sure.
Amy says
Wow these flapjacks look so good, love all that chocolate!