Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 115 g unsalted butter or cooking margarine
  • 115 g soft light brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp honey
  • 230 g porridge oats
  • 25 g ground almonds
  • 1 tbsp almond extract
  • 4 tbsp cherry jam
  • 25 g flaked almonds

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 180C (fan).
  • Grease and line the bottom and sides of a 20cm x 20cm square baking tin with greaseproof / parchment paper.
  • In a medium pan, gently melt the butter/margarine, sugar, and honey over a low heat until softened.
  • Stir in the oats.
  • Remove from the heat and stir in the ground almonds and almond extract.
  • Spoon half of the oat mixture into the baking tin and press down all over.
  • Spread the cherry jam over the oat mixture but leave about 0.5cm around the edges.
  • Spoon the rest of the oat mixture over the jam and press down all over again. Then sprinkle over the flaked almonds.
  • Bake for about 20 minutes on the middle shelf of your oven.
  • Remove from oven, mark into 9 squares whilst still hot, then remove from the pan when cool and carve into 9 squares.