using up oat cakes

Ms_W

Any ideas /recipes to use up boxes of oat cakes. they are mainly plain ones some are the seeded variety. I can only have so much cheese, pate and humous with them !
Any ideas welcomed, thanks

-taff

crumble topping, cheesecake base, flapjacks

Ms_W

yes they are good ideas

ampersand

Or donate to a foodbank?

Nelliegrace

They are nice with honey.

cannugec5

Salad, ploughman’s, peanut butter.

personally I dislike oatcakes but they are a favourite of my husband. I think you might as well eat the cardboard they come in…

Brie

Great donation to the food bank assuming they are unopened and reasonably within their sell by date.  

Otherwise - I like them simply with butter but as someone else has suggested they could be used in things that normally just take oats - crumble topping, flapjacks etc.  

We had an excess of very very ripe bananas at the food bank last week and one of the suggestions was to make "thimble cookies".  Handy to know about as these are vegan.  (assuming the oat cakes are....)  

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2 very ripe bananas (the riper the sweeter)

2 tablespoons of peanut butter (add a bit more if you use chunky but do go for the cheap stuff if poss)

1 cup (250 ml) oatmeal (substitute well mashed oat cakes)

Mush all together.  Make into 16 balls on a greased cookie sheet and stick your thumb in the middle of each to form a hole. 

Bake 350F for 15 minutes (less for fan assisted)

 Remove from oven and immediately drop a small blob of jam into each hole.

 Best eaten warm but also not bad cold.

silverwhistle

I make lots of apple crumbles, having a couple of apple trees, but you can also make savoury crumbles with lots of herbs, and if you are making pies it can save you having to buy or make pastry. Do a search for lots of ideas: this is the one I saw:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/sep/03/what-makes-a-good-savoury-crumble-anna-berrill

kimwp

Would they work as cereal? Broken up with seeds, nuts and fruit?

My favourite is to melt cheese on them and dip into salsa. 

kingstreet

These appear to be different to our Oatcakes here in Staffordshire which are a delight with bacon, cheese & brown sauce.

kimwp

Spread on cream cheese or yoghurt and top with fruit? For breakfast or a dessert. Tinned peaches or sliced fresh fruit would work well.