Oat Bars Recipe Healthy

Steps:

• Put an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 by 13 by 2-inch metal baking dish with vegetable oil cooking spray. Line the bottom and sides of the pan with parchment paper. Spray the parchment paper with vegetable oil cooking spray and set aside.
• Filling: In a small bowl, mix together the jam and the apricots. Set aside.
• Crust: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Stir in the oats and walnuts. Add the butter, egg and vanilla and stir until incorporated.
• Using a fork or clean fingers, lightly press half of the crust mixture onto the bottom of the prepared pan. Using a spatula, spread the filling over the crust leaving a 1/2-inch border around the edge of the pan. Cover the filling with the remaining crust mixture and gently press to flatten. Bake until light golden, about 30 to 35 minutes. Cool for 1 hour. Cut into bars and store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

Steps:

• Mix oats, flour and apple juice in a large bowl until lumps are gone. Stir in cinnamon and raisins.
• Mix vanilla in warm water; add to oat mixture; mix well. Stir in bananas, diced apples, fruit medley and walnuts.
• Let stand 15 minutes and mix again.
• Spray an 8 inch square pan with cooking oil and lightly flour pan.
• Bake at 325ºF. for 1 hour. Cool and cut in bars.
• NOTE: you can add 2/3 cup applesauce instead of the two mashed bananas, if you like.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Coat an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, oats, apricots and sunflower seeds.
• Whisk together margarine and egg substitute.
• Quickly mix together wet and dry ingredients.
• Spoon into prepared pan and smooth top.
• Bake until firm, about 20 minutes.
• Cool completely before cutting into 8 rectangles.
• Yields 1 bar per serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square pan.
• Combine oats, brown sugar, white sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Whisk milk, eggs, canola oil, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl. Stir egg mixture into oats mixture until well combined; set aside until flavors blend, about 20 minutes. Spread oats mixture into prepared square pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• mix dry ingredients and add a glug of hot water (maybe a couple of tbs)
• add in honey and nut butter, mix all together really well
• mixture should be sticky but quite lumpy, stiff and fairly dry, not like a cake batter but like a solid lumpy and flakey ball, almost more like a dough
• press down hard into silicon baking tin
• cook for 20-30 mins in 200 degree oven (preheat or not is fine). Take out and press down hard ten mins in with back of a plastic ladle or similar. press down again on removal. To ensure it all holds. When it comes out of oven it should all hold together fairly well but can still be softish, or can be left in longer or left in switched off oven for crispy Cool in tin but cut before it completely cools

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9 by 13 inch baking pan. Sift the dry ingredients together and set aside. In an electric mixer cream the butter, molasses and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and add the reserved dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated. Fold in oats, raisins, nuts and chips. Spread dough in an even layer on prepared pan and bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool on a rack for 10 minutes then carefully cut in to bars approximately 3 inches square. Remove bars from pan and allow to cool completely.