Apple and Blackberry Oat tray bake

This is delicious, slightly crunchy at the edges, not too sweet and a perfect lunchbox snack, making the warm oats adds a lovely texture as well as being lovely and filling.

 100g porridge oats soaked in 300ml warm water and 1tsp mixed spice

100g butter

1tsp Vanilla extract

75g coconut palm sugar or ordinary brown sugar

1 egg

100g plain flour of choice

1tsp baking powder

4 eating apples peeled cored and chopped

100g blackberries

 Oven at 170c

Grease and line a deep tray bake pan about 30 by 20 cm

Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy

Add in vanilla and egg and beat well, don’t worry if it looks slightly curdled – it comes together

Beat in the flour then fold in the oats mixture until well mixed

Pour into a prepared baking pan and cover with the apples and blackberries and gently press them down into the mixture

Bake for 50 minutes until a skewer comes out clean

Score with cutting marks then let cool completely and fully cut, best eaten within a few days.

Store in an airtight tin.