Strawberry Oatmeal Bars Recipe | My Baking Habit

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

As you’ll be able to in all probability guess, my staff and I spend a whole lot 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 altering, even when it’s nonetheless sweatshirt climate right here in Ohio. And whereas peak strawberry season received’t hit my area for a short time but, I really like making recipes that permit even pre-season berries to sing.

From strawberry banana muffins to strawberry popsicles to those strawberry oatmeal bars, these recipes hold me going even when the climate isn’t so nice.

Easy strawberry oatmeal bars

These strawberry oatmeal bars are a breeze to make. You’ll toss collectively one easy combination packed stuffed with oats for each the tender base crust and the crumble topping.

The recent strawberry filling provides simply the correct quantity of sweetness and lets the entire flavors of the recent strawberries shine by way of.

They’re good for a spring or summer season dessert. However with the mix of the oats and the strawberries, generally I let myself get pleasure from one among these bars for breakfast, too.

Plus, identical to my apple pie bars and do-it-yourself lemon bars, they’re nice for feeding a crowd! Take these to only about any cookout and I can guess you’ll carry house an empty container.

The way to make strawberry oatmeal bars

These strawberry oatmeal bars are fairly straightforward to make, so I can guess you’ll end up on the lookout for causes to make them frequently! 

Elements you’ll want

For the recent strawberry filling, you have to:

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

You will have 4 cups of complete strawberries that you’ll want hull and cube. I don’t advocate utilizing frozen strawberries for this recipe except you occur to have already diced frozen strawberries.

Don’t fret an excessive amount of about a precise measurement in your lemon juice. For those who don’t have recent lemon juice, use about 1 ½ tablespoons of the bottled stuff (though I at all times advocate utilizing recent lemons!). 

For the oat crust and topping, you have to:

• 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 pure vanilla extract

I desire to make use of rolled oats (aka old style oats) on this recipe. I really like the chewy texture they offer to recipes like these strawberry oatmeal bars and oatmeal raisin cookies.

For those who solely have quick-cooking oats, these will work simply superb. Simply be sure you do NOT use immediate oatmeal.

Ensure you know how you can measure flour appropriately so your oatmeal bars prove superbly each time! 

You will have to make use of softened butter for this crust combination. For those who neglect to set your butter out forward of time, I’ve some ideas for softening butter rapidly.

Making this recipe

When making these strawberry oatmeal bars, begin by getting ready the filling. Stir collectively the diced strawberries and sugar and let the combination sit for 10 minutes, then add the lemon juice and corn starch.

Set the filling apart whilst you put together the crust combination.

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

Firmly press about ⅔ of the crust combination into the underside of a greased 13×9-inch pan. I like to make use of the underside of a measuring cup to essentially press the combination in, identical to I do when making pecan bars.  

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

Use your arms to squeeze the remaining crust combination into clumps and sprinkle it excessive of the strawberry filling. Bake the bars for about 35-40 minutes; they’re prepared when the crust is golden brown and the sides are bubbly.

Oatmeal bar variations

I really like making these bars with the primary recent strawberries of the season, however you could possibly strive any of your favourite berries on this recipe!

If utilizing blueberries, you’ll be able to depart the blueberries complete. If you’re utilizing raspberries, blackberries, or cherries, I counsel halving or quartering them, relying on dimension.

A mix of berries would even be scrumptious and kind of a hand-held model of my berry crisp.

​​I initially made these strawberry oatmeal bars years in the past utilizing Truvia baking mix however needed to replace the recipe to make use of granulated sugar as an alternative. For those who nonetheless need 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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