Blueberry Flapjacks

Sweet, gooey flapjacks with fresh blueberries! Yep, these blueberry flapjacks are a fruity take on traditional flapjacks and make an awesome filing kid friendly snack!

Kid Friendly Blueberry Flapjacks

Flapjacks are a big thing in this house and if you're a regular reader of my blog you'll know I've made a few of them in various flavors over time!

These Blueberry Flapjacks came about thanks to a glut of blueberries I had and wasn't sure what to do with them. We tend to overdo it withe fresh blueberries when they're in season where I live, we don't get them for very long and so when we do...they're cheap plentiful and available everywhere, plus many people have blueberry bushes in their gardens and so they really are everywhere!

Having kids that love flapjacks means it's quite easy to add some fruit into them. Yes, they're still a snack, still a treat really, but these are so much healthier than their shop bought equivalent that I'm pretty free and easy with allowing the kids to dip in and help themselves to these!

Oatmeal is one of the higher protein grains you can use for baking and so I tend to make flapjacks quite a lot.

Of course it's pretty easy in many recipes to use oatmeal flour instead of regular flours but flapjacks are even easier, no need to whizz up the oats to make flour, just use them as they are. Easy baking is right where I'm at :)

Fresh or Frozen Blueberries?

You need to use fresh blueberries for these flapjacks. In the same way you have to use fresh cherries for these coconut and cherry flapjacks, frozen blueberries will make this recipe to soggy and so you need to get your hands on some fresh blueberries to make these.

Recipe Variations

If you wanted to...you can melt some white chocolate and drizzle it on top of this flapjack. Blueberries and white chocolate (in my opinion, lol!) go together really well and there's also something really appealing about the blueberry color coupled with white chocolate that just looks so...delicious!

If I do this, and I sure do sometimes, I usually use about 3-4 squares of a bar of white cooking chocolate and melt it in a microwave proof bowl, in the microwave. If you want to do this, heat it for 30 seconds at a time and then stir it, it can burn very easily so keep an eye on it.

For the drizzling, I just use a teaspoon and drizzle the melted chocolate back on forward over the uncut flapjack. You'll want to do this on a totally cooled flapjack, and then let the chocolate set before you slice it up.

More Blueberry Recipes

• Healthy yogurt parfait
• Mini blueberry pancakes
• Blueberry breakfast cake
• Blueberries and cream breakfast oatmeal
• Lemon blueberry bread

Make Ahead And Storing These Flapjacks

If you're making these blueberry flapjacks for an 'occasion' or you have people coming over and you want them to hand, you can make these up to two days ahead of time.

Flapjacks are easy to keep fresh for a few days, 2-3 days really, in an airtight food storage container.

Keep them in the cupboard rather than the fridge and you'll keep the gooeyness flapjacks are known for and you'll also find the flavor of flapjacks develops over the day or so after they've been cooked.

More Clean Eating Snacks

• Healthy flapjacks for kids
• Chocolate flapjacks
• Chocolate and date energy balls
• Clean eating chocolate brownies
• Kid approved healthy apple slice
• Pear and cinnamon muffins
• Blackberry and apple muffins

How To Make Blueberry Flapjacks

Ingredients

• 1½ Cups Oatmeal
• ⅔ Cup Butter
• 2 Cups Fresh blueberries
• 3 tbsp Maple syrup 100% pure
• 2 tbsp Coconut sugar

Instructions

• Heat your oven up to 190f or 350c and line a square 8 inch tin with parchment paper and then rub the paper with a little butter to stop the flapjack sticking
• Put the oatmeal in a large mixing bowl and put it to one side
• On the stove melt the butter and coconut sugar in a small pan over a really low heat, stirring it to make sure it doesn't burn
• Take the melted butter and sugar off the heat and stir in the maple syrup and then add this to the oatmeal mixture and combine it really well making sure all the oatmeal is covered in the butter mixture
• Stir through the blueberries (gently so they don't break!) and then scoop the flapjack mix into the lined tin
• Using the back of a spoon, push the mixture into the pan so it's compacted and flat on the surface
• Bake the flapjack for 15 minutes until golden on the top and then take it out of the oven
• The flapjack will harden up as it cools, so wait until it's cooled before cutting it into slices
• To get a neat cut, turn the flapjack over and cut in from the underneath up :)

Blueberry Flapjacks Recipe