Lilly Higgins’ chocolate orange overnight oats – RTÉ Today with Dáithí and Sinéad 🍫 😋 🍊

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Lilly Higgins

By Lilly Higgins

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Recipe courtesy of Yoplait Skyr.

Ingredients

Serves 4

  • 2 tbsp honey (add more if you’d like it sweeter)
  • 100ml milk
  • Juice of 1 orange
  • 1 orange or mandarin, chopped up into small bite-size pieces
  • 1 large tub Yoplait Skyr
  • 180g oats
  • 1 tbsp each of linseed, sunflower seeds, chia, pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, and cacao nibs
  • 100g dark chocolate, melted

Method

  1. Place the nuts, seeds & cacao nibs into a high-speed mixer and blitz till slightly grainy like coffee grounds. Mix this seed mix with the honey, orange juice, milk until combined.
  2. Add a tub of Skyr and stir until combined. Fold in the chopped orange.
  3. Taste and add a little more honey if you’d like. Fold in the oats.
  4. Divide between four bowls or jars and top with melted chocolate. Store in the fridge overnight.

Mary Flahavan’s Oaty Flapjacks… with chocolate on top! #kidshealth

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Oaty Flapjacks
Makes approximately 30 flapjacks.
This is a wheat free recipe.
Ingredients
175g (7oz)  Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets
175g (7oz)  Flahavan’s Jumbo Oat Flakes
200g (7oz) Butter or Margarine
100g (4oz) Brown Sugar
2 tbsp. Golden Syrup
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2.
  2. Melt margarine or butter in a saucepan with the sugar and golden syrup. Heat gently until the sugar is dissolved.
  3. Stir in the oatflakes.
  4. Tip the mixture into a swiss roll tin (22cm x 33cm, 9’’ x 13’’) lined with parchment and press it out evenly using the back of a spoon.
  5. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 30 minutes or until golden brown.
  6. When baked, coat with melted chocolate as a special treat.
  7. Cut into squares while still warm and leave to cool in the tin.
These nutritious flapjacks keep very well in a tin. Children love their crunchy texture and they make an ideal addition to any lunchbox.