Oatmeal Bars
Quick and easy Oatmeal Bars with a soft melt-in-your-mouth crumb that take less than 10 minutes to prep. Customize with your favorite jam filling.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 15 bars
- Category: breakfast/dessert
- Method: stovetop/bake
- Cuisine: Americansem
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg beaten
- 3/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12-ounce jar raspberry preserves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 7×11-inch baking dish with butter or shortening.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the rolled oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Stir in the egg, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Split the mixture in half and pat half of it into the prepared baking dish.
- Warm the raspberry jam in a saucepan over low heat. Using an offset spatula, spread the jam over the oatmeal mixture.
- Crumble the rest of the oatmeal mixture over the raspberry jam. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned.
- For best results, let the bars fully cool before slicing
Notes
- Grease the baking dish well. I like to grease it with shortening. Jam is sticky, and it needs a good coat of butter or shortening.
- If you don’t have a 7×11-inch baking dish, use a 9×9-inch baking dish.
- For optimal flavor and taste, use rolled oats, not quick oats or steel-cut oats.
- Any flavor jam works with this recipe, including strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, peach, apricot, or cherry.
- You can replace 50% of the butter with almond butter, peanut butter, cashew butter, or coconut oil.
- Let the dish cool before slicing, so the bars hold together well.
- Because of the jam, cover and refrigerate the bars after they cool.
- For chocolate chip oatmeal bars, skip the jam and add 2/3 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Spoon them into the baking dish and bake for about 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Store the bars at room temperature in an airtight container on the counter for up to 4 days.
- To freeze first fully cool the bars. Then slice them and layer them in a sturdy freezer-safe container with wax paper or parchment paper between the layers. Thaw in the fridge overnight.
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