All Flapjack Recipes: Every Version in One Place

By Michael

Every flapjack recipe on this site, side by side: the classic, the healthier and easier versions, the flavoured bars, the guide to choosing, and the full set of variations. Each recipe is written in full, with gram weights, °C, fan and Gas Mark, and its own timers.

The recipes, one by one

A stack of golden flapjack bars on a plate

The original

Classic Flapjack Recipe

Butter, golden syrup, light muscovado and porridge oats — golden at the edges, chewy in the middle. Makes 12 bars.

Homemade oat, fruit and nut bars on a plate, with bowls of walnuts, sunflower seeds and dried cranberries

Lighter

Healthy Flapjack Recipe

Banana and dates do the sweetening, with coconut oil, raisins and seeds through the oats.

Beginners

Easy Flapjack Recipe

Four ingredients, one tin and about 35 minutes — the version to make first.

Fruit

Banana Flapjack Recipe

Three ripe bananas and a teaspoon of cinnamon through the oats; keeps for three days.

A stack of chunky oat bars with peanuts, seeds and dried cranberries

Filling

Protein Flapjack Recipe

Peanut butter and protein powder in a sturdy, chunky bar — baked and no-bake versions.

A block of butter melting into golden liquid in a saucepan

Honey

Honey Flapjack Recipe

Runny honey in place of golden syrup — with the honest note that honey is still a sugar.

A baker's tray of flapjack squares drizzled with white and milk chocolate

Treat

Chocolate Flapjack Recipe

A chocolate top, chocolate chips or cocoa in the mix — three routes, one base.

Glossy golden vegan flapjacks served with fresh blackberries

Dairy-free

Vegan Flapjack Recipe

Coconut oil or a dairy-free block instead of butter; golden syrup is already vegan.

A whole baked flapjack slab with raisins and seeds, cooling on its baking parchment

Softest

Chewy Flapjack Recipe

Sweetened condensed milk in the mix and a short bake, out while the centre is still soft.

Mincemeat flapjack squares studded with raisins and currants, dusted with icing sugar

Fruit

Fruit Flapjack Recipe

Mixed dried fruit soaked and stirred through the classic base, with orange zest.

Porridge oats weighed into a glazed ceramic bowl on a worktop

Guide

Best Flapjack Recipe

Our own five versions compared side by side, so you can pick by texture, time and tin.

A baked fruit flapjack cut into nine squares in its parchment-lined tin

More ideas

Flapjack Variations

Fifteen ways to change the classic recipe, with a choose-by-need table.

Every recipe here is a draft until it has been kitchen-tested, and each page says so plainly. New here? Start with the classic recipe, and keep the flapjack FAQs open for the short answers while you bake.