Chewy Fruit & Oatmeal Bars

Submitted by Mirj2338

"I've been looking for recipes to use up my copious quanities of oats in my cupboard and came across this one on the Quaker site. It's very good, easy to make, and very portable!"

 

• Ready In: 37mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 177.44 ml firmly packed brown sugar
• 118.29 ml granulated sugar
• 226.79 g container low-fat vanilla yogurt or 226.79 g container plain low-fat yogurt
• 2 large egg whites, lightly beaten
• 29.58 ml vegetable oil
• 29.58 ml skim milk
• 9.85 ml vanilla
• 354.88 ml all-purpose flour
• 4.92 ml baking soda
• 4.92 ml ground cinnamon
• 2.46 ml salt (optional)
• 709.77 ml oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
• 236.59 236.59 ml raisins or 236.59 ml dried cranberries

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F degrees.
2. In large bowl, combine sugars, yogurt, egg whites, oil, milk, and vanilla; mix well.
3. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; mix well.
4. Add to yogurt mixture; mix well.
5. Stir in oats and fruit.
6. Spread dough onto bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan.
7. Bake 28-32 minutes or until light golden brown.
8. Cool completely on wire rack.
9. Cut into bars.
10. Store tightly covered.

Reviews

[Gay Gilmore]

I'm having a love affair with oatmeal right now! This turned out a bit more cake-y than I expected but it tastes great and is still plenty chewy. I added dried cranberries and dried cherries. Great as a breakfast bar, dessert and cookie.

 

[Dorel]

These have good flavor and not too sweet and healthy to boot. I did use Splenda for the white sugar. I baked for 32 min. and that was too much. Next time I will only leave in for 28 or maybe even less. They stuck to the bottom of the pan but I was able to loosen them with a spatula. I think I will spray with Pam next time.

 

[bmcnichol]

We really liked these. I used Splenda instead of sugar, 1 egg instead of 2 egg whites and canola oil instead of vegetable. Followed the rest of the recipe as written. I added one cup of dried blueberries. I'm glad I checked mine while cooking. I set the oven for 28 minutes but checked at 24 minutes and they wer pretty brown. They had a really good taste to them. Just enough sweetness. Will be making them again.

 

[FanciMcG]

Very very good, fast, and easy. Made a few changes because I think I'm not biologically capable of following a recipe exactly...Added some extra spices (cloves, nutmeg, allspice); used whole eggs because I'm too lazy to separate them (at least I'm honest!); used 3 Tbsp of unsweetened applesauce in place of the oil. Followed another reviewer's comment and used whole wheat flour. Normally I make very healthy low fat muffins for the hubs, I tried this for a change and it's a winner. Also much easier to clean a 9x13 pan compared to muffin tins! Thanks for posting. Mary

 

[hamoud64]

Loved it! I substituted whole wheat flour, splenda brand, brown sugar mix, and natural peanut butter for the oil, I used no refined sugar, it was sweet enough with just the vanilla yogurt.