Pink Lady Apple Donut Flapjacks
Flapjacks for Breakfast? Yes please!
We often take some time on the weekend to make a nice breakfast together with the kids. I’ve previously shared my fluffiest flapjacks recipe, but this is something totally different! By dipping apple slices in the batter, you can include some fruit in your child’s diet. You can opt to cut the apple slices thinner, or poach the apple beforehand if you want it to be soft. I cut thick slices and didn’t poach them as we like the crunchy texture of the apple inside the flapjacks, but this is up to you!
Ingredients to make Pink Lady Apple Donut Flapjacks
This recipe makes enough for a family of four.
1 Cup Self Raising Flour
1 Cup Milk
1 Egg
1 Tsp Vanilla Essence
1 Tsp (or more - to taste) Cinnamon
4 Large Pink Lady Apples
80 gram Pick n Pay Fruit Roll
1/2 cup of Water
Some icing sugar for sprinkling (to taste)
How to Prepare Pink Lady Apple Donut Flapjacks
Whisk the egg and milk together.
Sieve the flour and add bit-by-bit to the egg/milk mixture, whisking gently. Careful not to overmix.
Add the vanilla essence and cinnamon to the mixture.
Cut the apples in slices and core the slices to get the seeds out.
Cut thick slices if you’d like the apple to still be crispy, or thinner slices if you’d like the apple to be soft. You can also opt to poach the apple beforehand. I cut thick slices and didn’t poach them as we like the crunchy texture of the apple inside the flapjacks.
Dip the apple slices in the batter and fry them in a pan with a little oil. Turn once golden on one side.
Whilst your apple donut flapjacks are frying, you can cook down the fruit roll (cut down in strips) in a sauce pan with some water until it forms into a thick paste.
Once the apple donut flapjacks are fried golden on both sides, present them on a platter with a generous serving of dollops of cooked down fruit roll and a sprinkle of icing sugar.
Serve and enjoy immediately - enjoy!
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
More Sweet Recipes
If you’re looking for something sweet, why not try making a genuine, authentic Dutch Apple Pie next? Or how about trying this Fluffiest Flapjack recipe, which pairs wonderfully with Pecan Nut Brittle and with a Berry Compote. If you’re looking for cake, this Chocolate Cake recipe is always a winner.
About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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While it should be no surprise that I am the cook of the Roasted family, few of you will know that The Roasted Mom is the baker. She’s been making this traditional Dutch apple pie for me since we first got together fourteen years ago, and the Cape Town weather this week sure called for a slice of hot Dutch apple pie!