South african crunchies/hawermoutkoekies/oatmeal bars

Ingredients

• All purpose flour: 1/5 cup
• Whole Wheat flour: 1/5 cup
• Oats: 1/3 cup
• Desiccated coconut: 1/3 cup
• Flax seed meal: 1 tablespoon
• Cocoa: ½ tablespoon
• Pineapple chopped: ½ cup
• Butter: 1/4 cup
• Walnut: ¼ cup
• Water: ½ tablespoon
• Sugar: ¼ cup
• Baking soda: ½ teaspoon
• Salt: 1/8 teaspoon
• Honey: ¼ teaspoon
• Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Butter the base and sides of a pie pan or a loaf pan.
• Lightly toast the walnut for 10 minutes in the preheated oven and chopped into fine pieces and keep aside.
• In a bowl melt butter, sugar and honey in medium heat until the butter gets melted or use microwave 1 minute at high. Once butter honey sugar mixture get cooled stir in vanilla extract and water and keep aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, salt, cocoa, desiccated coconut and flax seed meal and keep aside. Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients, and gently fold in pineapple pieces and chopped walnuts.Transfer the mixture into a buttered pie pan, or loaf pan.
• And bake for 20 minutes at 350 degree F or until they become brown in color. Gently press down the sides if they seem to rise too much. Remove from the oven and cut into squares. Switch off the oven. Return crunchies to the oven, for 10 minutes to dry out.
• Cool completely before removing from pie pan or loaf pan. Enjoy any time.

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