Becksie of A Year without Supermarkets fame, posted the link to this recipe on the A Year without Supermarkets facebook page, and I had been meaning to try it for ages.

Well, now I have.

And I may live to regret it.

Exactly how many hobnobs would you say were too many to eat in one day…??!

Apparently, January 12th was “International Homemade Hobnob Day”. How I missed this, I will never know. But I am making up for it now…

The recipe is from The Love of It, but a couple of people have since told me that it also on Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert site-and they are right! Here it is-called “Twink’s hobnobs”

Basically, I’m not sure whose recipe it is.

But here it is!

This is what you need:

225g self raising flour

225g sugar

225g porridge oats

225g margarine/butter

1tbsp golden syrup

1tbsp hot water

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

This is what you do:

Pre-heat the oven to 180C and grease or line at least 2 baking sheets

In a pan, gently melt the butter, syrup and water

While it is melting, mix together the flour, oats and sugar in a largish bowl. Add any extra ingredients you fancy like raisins or choc chips. (I went with tradition and left ours plain and unadulterated)

When the butter mix has melted, stir in the bicarbonate of soda, and then add it to the dry mix

Mix well, and then make kind of walnut sized balls (I got 36 from this amount of mix-the original recipe says 35-50, so mine must have been on the large side, but they weren’t that large, if that makes sense?!)

Bake in the oven-the original recipe says for 15mins, but I checked mine after 10 and they were done. They should be golden brown

Leave to cool for a few minutes before attempting to move them to a wire rack or they will crumble everywhere!

If you are feeling really crazy, you can make chocolate coated hobnobs, by coating them in chocolate…

Devour several in one sitting with a nice cup of tea!