Chewy Oat Bars

Submitted by hectorthebat

"Chewy oat bars"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 30 bars

ingredients

• 75 g apricots
• 75 g dates
• 75 g sultanas
• 275 g oats
• 50 g Rice Krispies
• 50 g sesame seeds
• 50 g sunflower seeds
• 200 g butter
• 150 g sugar
• 100 ml honey

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line a 21cm square cake tin with baking paper. Cut the apricots and dates into pieces the same size as the sultanas using children's scissors. Put in a large bowl.
2. Add the sultanas, oats, rice snaps, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds to the bowl and mix together.
3. Put the sunflower spread in a saucepan along with the sugar and honey. Stir over a low heat until the spread has melted and the sugar has just started to melt. Make sure you don't let the mixture get so hot that it boils.
4. Carefully add to the dry ingredients (an adult should do this for young children), stir to mix it all together, then put it in the tin. Level the top and press it down lightly.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Leave for 20 minutes, then lift out in the paper and put on a board. Score into bars with a knife but leave until completely cold before separating the pieces.