Flake Bake - the complicated truth

This weekend my great pal, Alison and I celebrated our twentieth anniversary of being friends. We met at university and shared a flat for many years. In our first year as friends we also shared this recipe. It's a deeply complicated but highly satisfying concoction that I would like to pass on to you now.

First, find the cookbook you had all those years ago.

Then gather together all the various ingredients.

and check the recipe before beginning...

Step one...

Step two...

Step three...

Then serve and eat.

What we found was that the dish wasn't called Flake Bake after all and that if you couldn't find Flakes, Twist bars came fairly close. A rare moment of nostalgia and a great excuse to tell some old stories.