These are locally made oatcakes, and in contacting the maker I found that she pays a royalty to the owner of the recipe, so presumably it may be difficult to find the actual recipe.
However, I can describe and hope for the best from more seasoned cooks than I. They look like hockey pucks, are made with rolled oats, and they’re very…oaty, not cookie-like–closer perhaps to a really thick, chewy granola bar. They’re apparently baked, but not browned or crispy.
Ingredients on the one I just devoured: rolled oats, choc chips, water, whole wheat flour, nuts, dates, butter, turbinado sugar, vanilla, salt.
I know they have a low sugar and fairly low fat content. Otherwise, I’m clueless, although I’m doing yet another googlesearch for something similar.
Do these sound familiar to anyone? I love love LOVE them, but they’re expensive to buy.
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This is the basic recipe for oatcakes, and what I use when I make them. They’re somewhat crispy, and are baked. Delicious with just butter on them or eaten with some sharp cheese.
What you describe sounds more like a granola bar or cookie than the oatcakes I know. Some websites you can search recipes by ingredient, you may have better luck with that than with searching oatcake. I found this recipe which sounds to me closer to what you are looking for.
Though they lack nuts and dates and the chocolate is used as a topping rather than an ingredient in the batter, what you’re describing sounds something like the “wheat bars” my family makes. I’m not sure why they’re called wheat instead of oat, because they’re more oats than flour. Considering this webpage is for my mom’s high school, I think it’s a good chance that she and my aunt picked up the recipe here. I have a feeling that if you added the nuts and dates to it, you’d end up with something like what you ate.