I have been looking for a recipe for a homemade breakfast bar that had ingredients that I have available at home on a regular basis. I generally find recipes that have ingredients that I have either have never heard of or can only be find in health food stores. Check out this recipe.
Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup whole wheat flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup apple juice
10 ounces jam (apricot, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, or apple butter)
1 tablespoon water
Directions
- Combine oats, flour, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Add the oil, egg, vanilla, and apple juice, and mix with a spoon or a mixer.
- Press 2/3 of the mix evenly into a greased 8x12 pan.
- Mix the jam with the water, and spread evenly over the mix.
- Crumble the remaining oat mixture over the top, and bake at 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.
- Before cutting, cool completely.
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8 comments:
Hi, Carrie. These sound delicious and healthy. I've been trying to find an variety of breakfast bar or cookie recipes. Do you think these bars are freezable?
Shilah,
I have never tried to freeze them. However, I have frozen cookies enough to think that they would. Let me know if you try how they turn out.
Carrie
I am so excited to try these tomorrow!! Thank you
thanks so much for the recipe, it will save tons of money!
I found out that Nutrigrain bars have artificial food dye in them, and immediately scoured the web for a similar recipe..
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I made two batches (Planned to try out freezing them) and my family has already demolished the first batch!!
My husband, 3 year old and picky 1 year old unanimously agreed that these were better than store bought.
And they cost pennies to make!!!
Could you use applesauce instead of oil?
These sound great! If I added wheat germ to the dry ingredients, would I need to compensate by adding more liquid?
Would love to post this recipe on my food blog if that is ok with you (giving you credit).
I had to add a touch more liquid to the dry mix because King Arthur Flour seems to ALWAYS need a bit more liquid than other wheat flours ... and used olive oil since I figured there was going to be enough sweet stuff to offset the sort of ... bland, staleish taste of the olive oil. It worked. Also, the juice I used was a blackberry/blueberry/acai mix and it still came out wonderfully!
Also, for the filling, I used Welch's All Natural Strawberry Jelly and figured since it wasn't jam I wouldn't need to cut it with water. I think next time I -might-, since it made the insides a bit thick. But, yeesh. I don't know if these bars are going to survive until the morning for my son! Haha.
I think I might double the dry ingredient part next time, too. I made 1.5 and I think doubling it would perfectly make a cover for the bars - since crumbling my mixture wasn't an option.
But yes. These are divine. Thank you!
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