Soft Baked Oat Bars

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Save money by making your own version of store bought soft oat bars to pack in school lunches, grab as a quick breakfast or snack on the go, or to bring along on your outdoor adventures! These bars are so easy, and are endlessly customizable to whatever ingredients you’ve got in your pantry!

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Use up what you already have for these oat bars:

I would have loved to make this recipe for this blog post using chocolate chips - but, I didn’t have any chocolate chips! So, I used what I already had in my pantry: raisins and chia seeds. Still delicious, and, saved me money from thinking I had to have chocolate chips and heading to the store to buy some.

That’s really what this blog is all about: using what you already have, and saving money wherever you can.

Maybe one day when I make these I will have chocolate chips on hand, along with walnuts…dried cranberries, maybe some coconut - and those will be a totally different and especially delicious version of these soft baked oat bars!

Ideas for what you could add to these soft baked oat bars:

Truly, the possibilities are endless for the flavour of these soft baked oat bars.

These are completely customizable to whatever your tastes, or allergies, or dietary restrictions desire. Here’s some combinations that I think would be especially tasty and that I will probably make sometime in the future:

• shredded coconut, dried apricots (and white chocolate chips if you’re fancy)

• peanuts, raisins, and m&ms or chocolate chips

• sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, almonds

• peanut butter chips, peanuts, chocolate chunks

• dates, coconut, pumpkin seeds

• dried cherries, dark chocolate chunks, almonds

• walnuts, caramel baking chips, milk chocolate

• pretzel pieces, chocolate chips, peanuts

Frosted Drizzle Ideas:

For this batch of soft baked oat bars, I combined mango flavoured yogurt (kefir, actually), with some powdered sugar to create a light icing to add just enough sweetness to the bars.

But there are so many other things you could top these bars with to customize them to whatever ingredients you’ve added to your unique batch:

• melted white chocolate

• melted dark chocolate

• melted chocolate chips

• caramel drizzle (made similarly to how you boil the brown sugar and honey for the bars)

• strawberry jam mixed with frosting and a teaspoon of milk

Soft Baked Oat Bars

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Yield: 10-12

Author: Make with Mariel

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 30 MinInactive time: 30 MinTotal time: 1 H & 15 M

A homemade soft baked oat bar recipe that is endlessly customizable, and perfect for school lunches! Save your money and start making your own soft and delicious oat snack bars!

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Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups rolled or quick oats
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup chia seeds
• 2/3 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 cup honey or maple syrup
• 1/2 cup milk of your choice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste

Yogurt Drizzle

• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1-2 tablespoons of yogurt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Add the whole wheat flour, oats, salt, chia seeds, and raisins to a large bowl.
3. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter, brown sugar and honey or syrup.
4. Stirring constantly, bring the butter and sugar mixture to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
5. Remove from heat and stir in the milk and vanilla extract.
6. Pour over the dry ingredients and combine.
7. Add your bars to a buttered or parchment paper lined 9"x12" pan.
8. Bake for 20-30 minutes, until your bars are coming away from the edge of the pan and golden brown on top.

Adding the Yogurt Drizzle

1. Combine the yogurt and icing sugar in a small bowl with a small whisk or fork.
2. Once bars are completely cool, drizzle the mixture over the top of the bars.
3. Leave out to allow the drizzle to dry completely.
4. Cut the bars to your desired size and store in an air tight container.

Notes

You can substitute or add whatever ingredients you'd like to these easy bars! Chocolate chips and a chocolate drizzle would be amazing.

These freeze beautifully! And are best eaten within the first 2-3 days when fresh.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

377.31

Fat

13.2 g

Sat. Fat

6.61 g

Carbs

61.52 g

Fiber

6.7 g

Net carbs

54.83 g

Sugar

22.73 g

Protein

7.18 g

Sodium

320.06 mg

Cholesterol

26.25 mg

Disclaimer: This nutritional info has been automatically calculated and is not confirmed by a registered dietitian. The value is per serving.

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