During the week most of us are happy with a quick bowl of cereal and some fruit for breakfast, but over weekends when we have a bit more time, it’s nice to spoil ourselves and our families with something special. When the folks from Kellogg’s challenged me to make something with their new Special K Oats & Honey, I was incredibly excited. I’ve eaten Special K since I was a student and am particularly fond of the Red Berries product. I knew that I would have fun developing recipes around the newest addition to their cereal family and once I tasted Special K Oats & Honey, I was hooked. It’s…
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Posts Tagged ‘Flapjacks’
Since I was a little girl, I’ve always loved flapjacks (or what the rest of the world call pancakes/hot cakes) for breakfast. There’s something so indulgent and satisfying about a pile of warm, doughy flapjacks covered in a shiny, golden layer of syrup that instantly puts a smile on my face. As I’ve grown older (and hopefully wiser), I realised that although delicious, this is not exactly the healthiest way to start your day. So now I keep this as a breakfast to serve on special days or days where I feel like spoiling my family. By adding ricotta to these flap jacks, they become fluffy and incredibly light (which…
Breakfast in our house is quite a boring meal most of the time. I sometimes get creative and zhoosh up the normal oats but most of the time it’s oats with syrup and a knob of butter or toast with some topping. If my family is lucky, they’ll get a scrambled egg. But sometimes I feel very ‘domestic goddess-like’ early in the morning and I’ll whip up some waffles or flapjacks. I wasn’t in the mood for the regular old flapjacks this weekend and spotted the dessicated coconut in the pantry and decided to add some to the batter. It transformed them into (if possible) more-moist, more flavorsome little cakes….
