Motorhome Recipe: No Oven Flapjack-Biscuit-Cake-Thing
Biscuits? With no oven? Huzzah!
Each and every member of Team Zagan likes a biscuit or eight, and normally we procure our hefty biccy-stash from one of Europe’s finest Lidl stores for only a nominal fee. At the moment though, we’re in Norway, and Norway doesn’t do Lidl. No, instead Norway charges for biscuits like they’re made from diamond-encrusted gold nuggets, you need to call your bank each time you buy them to ensure enough funds are available in the international banking system.
As we have no oven in our Hymer B544, surely this would savage our budget like a boz-eyed hammerhead shark, forcing us back home for another ten year’s hard labour (clicking about in Microsoft Office)?
But no! We found another way. Here follows our motorhome recipe for the no-oven flapjack-biscuit-cake-thing, which can be made with a single gas burner and a non-stick pan, and the smallest dollop of patience. Give ’em a try, unless you have a Lidl nearby, then just go buy theirs (we love their choc chip cookies, they’re epic).
Ingredients
These quantities make about 12 decent-sized biscuit-things:
- 100g butter
- 100g flour
- 100g sugar (brown or white – try either)
- 100g rolled oats
- Two tablespoons of honey or golden syrup/light syrup in Norway (depending on what you can get or what tastes best)
- Optional to taste: dried coconut, raisins, choc chips, cinnamon, whatever you like! Be careful not to add too much of these or you might not be able to get the biscuit-things to stay in one piece
Lozenge-shaped biscuits just starting to cook
Method
- Melt the butter in a pan, stir in the sugar and honey/syrup, take care lest you burn the mix!
- Hand mix the melted concoction in a bowl with the oats, flour and whatever other ingredients-to-taste you choose
- Avoid eating all of the mix, OK, maybe just a teeny bit, chef’s privelege
- Melt a bit of butter in the pan to help stop the biccies sticking
- Keep the pan heat medium-low (and use a diffuser if you have one). I’ve tried it hot, and just ended up burning the lot
- Use two spoons to create ‘lozenge’ shaped biscuits and drop them into the pan
- Use a spatula to flatten and shape the biscuits, keep doing this as they cook
- After a few minutes, carefully flip each biscuit over
- Keep using the spatula to maintain their shape, they’ll stay a bit flexible even after they’ve cooled
- After a few more minutes, lift each biscuit onto a plate/cooling rack and allow to cool; pop ’em in the fridge to firm ’em up a bit more
- Scoff, gleefully!
Let us know if you come up with any variations on these – especially if you can find a way to make ’em just that bit healthier!
Cheers, Jay
Hi,
I’ve been following your blog for a few weeks now, also bought your book, and you’re partially one of the inspirational reasons why we ended up getting a motorhome. However, we have a cat to train to ride along for the trips before we can leave for longer periods, but I’m confident we will get there.
You should try to visit the stores named Kiwi, which carries a brand label called First Price.
They are a lot cheaper than a lot of the other brands. Almost all our groceries stores have their own brand thats way cheaper than the main brands. They might look a bit more simple in the content wrapping, but its basically the same content, just not made by the major Norwegian brands which makes the prices quite different.
Rema 1000 and Kiwi are the cheapest / biggest low-price stores for food in Norway.
Its nice to see you are enjoying our country, and I’m daily looking forward to reading about your adventures.
By the way, if you pass Trondheim on the way down, you should take up the opportunity to visit the place called Hell (https://www.google.no/maps/place/Hell/@63.4478705,10.9124388,14z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1shell,+trondheim!3m4!1s0x0:0xadefaabe98f832cc!8m2!3d63.4460491!4d10.8996928?hl=en).
It actually freezes over in the winter: http://www.trbimg.com/img-52cec9fa/turbine/la-sh-hell-mich-is-freezing-20140109/600
Have a nice trip south, and hope you will continue to enjoy our country.
Hi Per
Thanks for getting in touch. We are loving Norway, it’s an amazing country.
We’ve just been eating our First Price crisps and cheese for lunch, and have devoured the custard creme biscuits and orange cakes from there too. Kiwi and Rema are our fav supermarkets. Kiwi for the First Price range and selection of fresh stuff, and Rema for its free WiFi!
I have heard that Hell is in Norway, we may have to nip in and take a look!
Good luck with the cat training, Charlie the pooch is very untrained but does love the camper – new sniffs every day and with us all the time.
Cheers Julie