Strawberry Oatmeal Bars Recipe | My Baking Dependancy

Made with a easy oat-packed crust and a recent strawberry filling, strawberry oatmeal bars are a scrumptious strategy to welcome berry season.

As you may in all probability guess, my crew and I spend numerous time on the grocery retailer. And we’ve all been noticing that recent berries are beginning to come again in inventory.

In my thoughts, recent berries are a certain signal that the seasons are altering, even when it’s nonetheless sweatshirt climate right here in Ohio. And whereas peak strawberry season received’t hit my area for a short time but, I like making recipes that permit even pre-season berries to sing.

From strawberry banana muffins to strawberry popsicles to those strawberry oatmeal bars, these recipes preserve me going even when the climate isn’t so nice.

Easy strawberry oatmeal bars

These strawberry oatmeal bars are a breeze to make. You’ll toss collectively one easy combination packed filled with oats for each the tender base crust and the crumble topping.

The recent strawberry filling provides simply the correct quantity of sweetness and lets all the flavors of the recent strawberries shine by.

They’re excellent for a spring or summer season dessert. However with the mix of the oats and the strawberries, typically I let myself get pleasure from one in every of these bars for breakfast, too.

Plus, similar to my apple pie bars and home made lemon bars, they’re nice for feeding a crowd! Take these to simply about any cookout and I can guess you’ll carry residence an empty container.

Easy methods to make strawberry oatmeal bars

These strawberry oatmeal bars are fairly straightforward to make, so I can guess you’ll end up searching for causes to make them frequently! 

Substances you’ll want

For the recent strawberry filling, you have to:

• 4 cups of recent strawberries
• ⅔ cup granulated sugar
• Juice from half of a lemon
• 1/3 cup corn starch

You’ll need 4 cups of entire strawberries that you will want hull and cube. I don’t advocate utilizing frozen strawberries for this recipe except you occur to have already diced frozen strawberries.

Don’t fret an excessive amount of about a precise measurement in your lemon juice. Should you don’t have recent lemon juice, use about 1 ½ tablespoons of the bottled stuff (though I all the time advocate utilizing recent lemons!). 

For the oat crust and topping, you have to:

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ⅔ cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
• 14 tablespoons room-temperature unsalted butter
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

I want to make use of rolled oats (aka old style oats) on this recipe. I like the chewy texture they provide to recipes like these strawberry oatmeal bars and oatmeal raisin cookies.

Should you solely have quick-cooking oats, these will work simply nice. Simply ensure you do NOT use instantaneous oatmeal.

Ensure you know easy methods to measure flour appropriately so your oatmeal bars prove superbly each time! 

You’ll need to make use of softened butter for this crust combination. Should you overlook to set your butter out forward of time, I’ve some suggestions for softening butter shortly.

Making this recipe

When making these strawberry oatmeal bars, begin by making ready the filling. Stir collectively the diced strawberries and sugar and let the combination sit for 10 minutes, then add the lemon juice and corn starch.

Set the filling apart when you put together the crust combination.

Utilizing a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine collectively the oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, softened butter, salt, and vanilla on low pace. Combine till the combination resembles coarse meal. 

Firmly press about ⅔ of the crust combination into the underside of a greased 13×9-inch pan. I like to make use of the underside of a measuring cup to actually press the combination in, similar to I do when making pecan bars.  

Unfold the strawberry filling over the crust, ensuring you don’t depart behind any of these scrumptious juices within the bowl!

Use your arms to squeeze the remaining crust combination into clumps and sprinkle it excessive of the strawberry filling. Bake the bars for about 35-40 minutes; they’re prepared when the crust is golden brown and the sides are bubbly.

Oatmeal bar variations

I like making these bars with the primary recent strawberries of the season, however you would attempt any of your favourite berries on this recipe!

If utilizing blueberries, you may depart the blueberries entire. In case you are utilizing raspberries, blackberries, or cherries, I counsel halving or quartering them, relying on measurement.

A mix of berries would even be scrumptious and type of a hand-held model of my berry crisp.

​​I initially made these strawberry oatmeal bars years in the past utilizing Truvia baking mix however wished to replace the recipe to make use of granulated sugar as an alternative. Should you nonetheless need to use Truvia baking mix as an alternative of sugar, merely halve the sugar measurements to make use of ⅓ cup of the mix within the filling and the crust.

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