Chewy Oatmeal Brownies

Submitted by princess buttercup

"I promised my daughter I could make yummy brownies WITHOUT a box mix! When I went looking for a recipe, I wanted "something" nutritionally "good" in the recipe. This is what we came up with. Its a chewy, chocolatey brownie you can dress up with nuts, chips, marshmallows or m&m's."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 9-12

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter (melted)
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup flour
• 1⁄2 cup cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup oats
• 1⁄2 1/2 cup chocolate chips or 1/2 cup marshmallows (you can use up to 1 cup of these combined if you want to be fancy) (optional)

directions

1. Combine sugar, eggs and vanilla with a fork.
2. Combine dry ingredients (up to oats) in separate bowl.
3. Mix wet and dry ingredients together well with fork.
4. Stir in nuts.
5. Spread batter evenly in a greased 8 x 8 pan.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minututes.

Reviews

[abparkhurst]

I make this oatmeal cake for "Joy of cooking" whick I love because it is so chewy. I was reading the 4 star reviews, they mostly said dry oatmeal. So I poured boiling water over the oatmeal and let it set for 20 minutes or cool, but NOT overnight. Just enough to make is soak it all up: 1/2 cup water to 1 cup oats..

 

[Hilary C.]

The batter was really good and the brownies themselves were decent. They were a bit cake-ee for my taste. I might try pulsing the oats in the food processor next time. The taste was good though. I used a combination of sugars (coconut sugar, white sugar, and honey) and used coconut oil instead of butter. My add ins were walnuts and mini chocolate chips. I also took others' suggestions and only baked them for 25 mins and they were not dry.

 

[Wolfer49]

I really liked these bars. The oatmeal added a good coconutty, chewy type texture. They had a deep chocolate taste and were very quick and easy to make. I baked mine for 25 minutes.

 

[vintagenovelty]

To prevent the "drying out", I baked these for 25 minutes only. I loved the fact that it was chocolaty enough , but reduced the sugar to 3/4 cups since I was using brown. Oh yeah, and I used chopped and toasted hazelnuts:) In your instructions, the butter wasn't mentioned at all, so what I did was to melt the butter (salted), add cocoa, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking powder, and fold in the oats and nuts in this order. Thank you:)

 

[iluvmythomas]

These were ok. I have a ton of oatmeal I want to use up so I made this. We didn't really care for the oatmeal in the brownie. It gave it a strange texture and I think dried it out. They were much better warm with a scoop of ice cream and some butterscotch topping.