Query for cooking-type people

[juliet]

Vegan cooking query!

I would like to be able to make a vegan equivalent of cheesy flapjacks (where by 'equivalent' what I really mean is any kind of savoury flapjack; I'm not that picky). The basic problem here is that in cheese flapjacks the oats are held together by the cheese (and by egg if you use that, although it works OK without). What can I use to substitute for this that's vegan?

Tried so far:
- just using vegan marg, nutritional yeast, and some mustard mixed into the oats. Tasted great, but did not hold together AT ALL and had to be eaten with a spoon.
- as above but with some soya milk to hold the oats together. Tasted OK but consistency all wrong; what I like about flapjacks is their crunchy nature. This was more like solid porridge.

I've seen flour suggested, but fear that that will also bugger up the texture (making it too cakey/bready). Any other ideas?

Comments

[samvara]

No idea but we're dead keen to hear about it if you do find an alternative, our vegan says most pancake alternatives are too much like glue to be worth eating.

[juliet]

A little gram flour was helpful. Still all a bit dry, though.

For pancakes, fwiw, I usually just use flour & soya milk -- but then, the sort of pancakes I make are the v thin crepe-style British ones, not the thick doughy US (and Aussie?) ones. Last Pancake Day we experimented with extra gram flour & something else to make the batter more like regular pancake batter, but it was much more complicated & tbh I preferred the ones I usually make.

[samvara]

Those are the ones we need to make! V. thin crepe style :)

[juliet]

Soy milk & flour it is, then! They come out slightly crispier/thinner than the egg variety, and don't get bubbles/holes in quite the same way, but (IMO) tasty, and reasonably flippable. Certainly by the time one has put pancake toppings on them they are lovely!

They need to be cooked a bit hotter than the eggy ones. I think I use the heat kind of as a binding agent, if that makes sense?

(I can experiment to check quantities if you want -- I normally just put milk into the flour until the consistency seems about-pancake-batter-ish, so don't know off the top of my head.)

[samvara]

Thank you - I'll do some experimenting next time I need to provide comfort food.