Strawberry Oatmeal Bars
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I’m taking some time off the next few weeks to spend time with our new baby boy. While I’m away, I’ve scheduled some recipes here and there to share with you, like these Strawberry Oatmeal Bars today. I couldn’t leave you hanging all summer long.
OK, I’ll be the first to admit that these are not the prettiest of bars. But don’t let their looks fool you. These strawberry oatmeal bars are ridiculously addicting and one of the best things I’ve made in a while. You have to trust me on this 🙂
They are breakfast (oatmeal, strawberries :)), snack, and dessert all in one treat. I love making bars with crumb toppings, but what about having the crumb on both sides of the bar?? That is what I did with these strawberry oatmeal bars. I took Krusteaz’s Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookie Mix and turned it into a double crumb coating for a strawberry filling. Sandwiched between two brown sugar oatmeal cookie crusts, the warm baked strawberry filling is just the summer touch to take these bars over the edge. It’s warm, crumbly, and hearty.
The hubs brought a pan of these to work with him, and he said they were gone in 10 minutes as his workmates enjoyed them with their morning coffee.
So please make these bars before strawberry season is long gone and you can’t anymore. Grab the RECIPE over on Krusteaz.com where I will share it with their readers too.
Strawberry Oatmeal Bars
Ingredients
For filling:
- 2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- juice of half a lemon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons flour
For Crumb Layer:
- 2 cups Krusteaz Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookie Mix
- ½ cup rolled oats
- a pinch of salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8x8 inch square pan.
- Mix the strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, vanilla extract, and flour in a large bowl. Mix well until the flour is incorporated. Let sit while you prepare the crumb layer.
- Whisk together the cookie mix, oats, and salt in another medium bowl. Add in the butter and use your fingers to incorporate the butter into the oats until a crumb-like mixture forms.
- Transfer half of the crumb to the bottom of the prepared pan. Press down into an even layer.
- Spoon in the strawberry filling over the crumb layer and spread out.
- Finally, top with the remaining crumb layer and be sure to have it nicely spread out.
- Bake in the oven until the strawberries are bubbly and the top layer is golden brown, about 25-20 minutes.
- Let cool and then cut up into squares.
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I’ve got a box of that cookie mix right in my cabinet Zainab! And some yummy strawberries I just got from the market! What an awesome idea to use it in a fruit bar! I’ll have to give it a try! Hope you all are doing well!
Z, I think these bars look great!!!! love that you used the Krusteaz’s Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookie Mix!
These look delicious! Oatmeal in bar form is the best 🙂
Guess who is pinning these to try later?
These look perfect! I’d love one of these bars as an afternoon snack, maybe with a cup of coffee 🙂
Yes coffee is a must!!
Strawberry bars are just the best. Yours look amazing! I am going on a looong road trip tomorrow, and wish I had some of these to take along as snacks.
Oh I wish you had these!!
Sounds healthy and delicious!
Thanks Medeja!
This is my kind of breakfast! I’ll take it for breakfast, dinner or dessert in fact — I love crumble anything!
For anything!!!
Who needs pretty? Those bars look delicious!
Right??
Great use of an easily accessible premix! These certainly would be labeled “breakfast” in my house 😉
Any label works here!
Oh la laaa – I totally love this recipe. Anything with oatmeal is always good and the hubs is a big fan of strawberry. Definitely our favorites!
Thanks Linda!
Oh yeah. I love a bar that I can have for breakfast or dessert. That’s my kind of food for sure! And I think they are gorgeous! XO
Multi-purpose is the way to go!!
Soft crumbly nom noms on BOTH sides of these bars?! I think I just found my version of heaven! These look amazing, Z! Strawberry and oatmeal is always delicious together, but in a bar form WITH double crumbs? GIMME dat! Pinned! Hope you and baby boy have a wonderful time together! Cheers, girlfriend! <3
Hhaha it is really amazing!!!
Box me up some of this! Yummy!
Coming right up 🙂
Oatmeal bars with strawberry -oh my gosh, delicious!
Thanks Matt!
These need to be made asap, my little guy loves oatmeal bars!
Yay!! Hope he enjoys them 🙂
These would be perfect for the kids! They could either have them for breakfast, in their lunch boxes or for their afternoon snacks! Love them!