Strawberry Oatmeal Bars Recipe | My Baking Dependancy

Made with a easy oat-packed crust and a recent strawberry filling, strawberry oatmeal bars are a scrumptious option to welcome berry season.

As you’ll most definitely wager, my staff and I spend a large number of time on the grocery retailer. And we’ve all been noticing that recent berries are beginning to come again in inventory.

In my thoughts, recent berries are a positive signal that the seasons are converting, although it’s nonetheless sweatshirt climate right here in Ohio. And whilst height strawberry season gained’t hit my area for a short while but, I like making recipes that permit even pre-season berries to sing.

From strawberry banana cakes to strawberry popsicles to those strawberry oatmeal bars, those recipes stay me going even if the elements isn’t so nice.

Easy strawberry oatmeal bars

Those strawberry oatmeal bars are a breeze to make. You’ll toss in combination one easy aggregate packed filled with oats for each the mushy base crust and the collapse topping.

The recent strawberry filling provides simply the correct quantity of sweetness and we could all the flavors of the recent strawberries shine via.

They’re absolute best for a spring or summer time dessert. However with the combo of the oats and the strawberries, on occasion I let myself experience this sort of bars for breakfast, too.

Plus, identical to my apple pie bars and home made lemon bars, they’re nice for feeding a crowd! Take those to near to any cookout and I will be able to wager you’ll convey house an empty container.

How one can make strawberry oatmeal bars

Those strawberry oatmeal bars are beautiful simple to make, so I will be able to wager you’ll in finding your self searching for causes to lead them to regularly! 

Substances you’ll want

For the recent strawberry filling, you’ll want:

• 4 cups of clean strawberries
• ⅔ cup granulated sugar
• Juice from part of a lemon
• 1/3 cup corn starch

You’ll want 4 cups of complete strawberries that you’re going to want hull and cube. I don’t counsel the usage of frozen strawberries for this recipe except you occur to have already diced frozen strawberries.

Don’t be concerned an excessive amount of about a precise size in your lemon juice. In the event you don’t have recent lemon juice, use about 1 ½ tablespoons of the bottled stuff (even if I all the time counsel the usage of recent lemons!). 

For the oat crust and topping, you’ll want:

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ⅔ cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
• 14 tablespoons room-temperature unsalted butter
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract

I favor to make use of rolled oats (aka out of date oats) on this recipe. I like the chewy texture they provide to recipes like those strawberry oatmeal bars and oatmeal raisin cookies.

In the event you simplest have quick-cooking oats, the ones will paintings simply superb. Simply you should definitely do NOT use rapid oatmeal.

You should definitely know how one can measure flour as it should be so your oatmeal bars end up fantastically each time! 

It is very important use softened butter for this crust aggregate. In the event you fail to remember to set your butter out forward of time, I’ve some guidelines for softening butter temporarily.

Making this recipe

When making those strawberry oatmeal bars, get started through making ready the filling. Stir in combination the diced strawberries and sugar and let the mix take a seat for 10 mins, then upload the lemon juice and corn starch.

Set the filling apart when you get ready the crust aggregate.

The usage of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine in combination the oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, softened butter, salt, and vanilla on low velocity. Combine till the mix resembles coarse meal. 

Firmly press about ⅔ of the crust aggregate into the ground of a greased 13×9-inch pan. I love to make use of the ground of a measuring cup to in point of fact press the mix in, identical to I do when making pecan bars.  

Unfold the strawberry filling over the crust, ensuring you don’t depart in the back of any of the ones scrumptious juices within the bowl!

Use your fingers to squeeze the rest crust aggregate into clumps and sprinkle it excessive of the strawberry filling. Bake the bars for approximately 35-40 mins; they’re in a position when the crust is golden brown and the sides are bubbly.

Oatmeal bar diversifications

I like making those bars with the primary recent strawberries of the season, however it’s essential to take a look at any of your favourite berries on this recipe!

If the usage of blueberries, you’ll depart the blueberries complete. In case you are the usage of raspberries, blackberries, or cherries, I counsel halving or quartering them, relying on measurement.

A mix of berries would even be scrumptious and type of a handheld model of my berry crisp.

​​I at the beginning made those strawberry oatmeal bars years in the past the usage of Truvia baking mix however sought after to replace the recipe to make use of granulated sugar as an alternative. In the event you nonetheless wish to use Truvia baking mix as an alternative of sugar, merely halve the sugar measurements to make use of ⅓ cup of the mix within the filling and the crust.

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