Banana, Coconut & White Chocolate Flapjacks

I've seen various recipes for using banana in flapjacks over the years, but keep forgetting to try it myself. When I saw this recipe over at Jam and Clotted Cream last week, I bookmarked it immediately. I had two old bananas left over from the banana and peanut butter cake that were in dire need of using up and sadly, for a Jubiliee weekend, we had no cakes, bakes or other goodies in the house. Time to try out some banana flapjacks!

This is how I did it:

• Melted 150g of unsalted butter in a pan with 1 tbsp of syrup and 50g white chocolate (G&B)
• Mashed 2 bananas in a large bowl.
• Stirred in 60g soft brown sugar.
• Stirred in 50g desiccated coconut.
• Mixed in butter mixture until all incorporated.
• Stirred in 300g rolled oats.
• Pressed into a 9" square silicone mould and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
• Baked for 20 minutes at 180C.
• Left to cool then cut into 16 squares.

These smelt gorgeous whilst cooking and were very tasty to eat - not too sweet and not too bananary (if such a word exists). Banana and coconut are a well matched pair and the tropical flavourwas really good. They were just how I like flapjacks to be, crisp on the outside and chewy in the middle.

I am submitting this to Bookmarked Recipes run by Jac of Tinned Tomatoes and started by Ruth of Ruth's Kitchen Experiments.