Apple, cranberry and walnut flapjacks

Lu recently made apple sauce for a roast pork Sunday lunch (about 6 cooking apples peeled cored and sliced, about 500ml cider and a little sugar and salt to taste).  There was loads left over so I came up with this flapjack recipe to use up some of the rest.

Ingredients 

175g unsalted butter

150g golden syrup

6 tbsp apple sauce

2 apples, finely grated (skin on)

350g rolled oats

200g ground walnuts

Pinch of salt

170g dried cranberries

1 tsp cinnamon

100g dried apple circles

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
2. Grease and line baking tin with greaseproof paper.
3. Melt the butter and syrup over a low heat and stir until melted.
4. Remove from the heat and add the apple sauce and grated apple and stir well to combine.
5. Gently stir in the oats, walnuts, salt, cranberries and cinnamon.
6. Pour the mixture into the tin and smooth into all the corners, making sure the mixture is flat.
7. Put 3 tbsp golden syrup into a small frying pan on a gentle heat and add the dried apple circles, coating well.
8. Place the syrup-coated dried apples on the flapjack mixture.
9. Bake in the oven for 30-35 mins.
10. Cool completely before turning out onto a board and cutting into squares.