Raspberry Oatmeal Cookie Bars Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Line an 8x8-inch baking dish with aluminum foil. Once lined, spray the inside of the foil lined baking dish with a no-stick cooking spray; set dish aside.
• 2. In a medium size bowl, add the flour, soda and salt. Stir ingredients with a spoon to mix. Now add the brown sugar, oats, and butter. Mix ingredients with a pastry blender, to form a crumbly mixture. (I used a fork to mix the ingredients together thoroughly. It did take at least 5 minutes to blend everything together.)
• 3. Add 2 cups of the oatmeal crumb mixture into the baking pan. Press the crumb mixture down firmly with your hand.
• 4. Spread the preserves to within 1/4 inch from the edge of the pan.
• 5. Sprinkle remaining oatmeal crumb mixture over the preserves. Press the crumb mixture some-what firmly on top the preserves.
• 6. Place pan in a preheated 350 degree oven, and bake bars for 40 minutes.
• 7. Once the bars are baked, allow to cool to room temperature. (I then refrigerate the bars for a couple hours, so they can firm up a bit.)
• 8. Use aluminum foil to lift bar mixture from the pan. Cut bars into 12 squares.
• 9. *Note: I made these bars twice, once using raspberry preserves, and the other using home-cooked strawberry jam, but I found I much preferred the bars with the raspberry preserves. I think these bars would taste great using apricot preserves, or another kind of tart-tasting jam or preserves.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, oats and butter until crumbly. Press 3 cups of the crumb mixture into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack 5 minutes., In a small bowl, stir preserves and water until blended. Spread over crust. Sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Bake 25-28 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• In a medium bowl combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, flour, baking powder and salt; mix well. Spread 2/3 of mixture into prepared pan.
• Spread jam over mixture.
• Combine remaining mixture with oats and walnuts; sprinkle over jam layer.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line an 8 x 8 inch square pan with foil and spray with nonstick.
• Combine all ingredients except for the preserves.
• Press most- but not all of the oat mixture into the pan.
• Spread the preserves almost to the edge of the oat mixture.
• Sprinkle the remainder of the oat mixture on top of the preserves.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 8" sq pan and set aside.
• Mix all the ingredients together except the Jam.
• Press 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
• Spread jam to within 1/4" of the edge.
• Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top and lightly press it into the jam.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes and allow to cool on rack before cutting into 2x1-1/2" bars.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Combine the oats, flour, salt and baking powder; stir into the creamed mixture. Press half of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Spread the preserves over the crust. Crumble the remaining crust mixture over the raspberry layer.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until light brown. Cool completely before cutting into bars.