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Raspberry Oatmeal Bars

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These Rasberry Oatmeal Bars have a soft and crumbly golden-brown crust with a sweet and tart raspberry center topped with a layer of oatmeal crumbs.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword raspberry oatmeal bars
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 40 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

For Raspberry Filling

  • cups Raspberries
  • 2 tbsp Corn Starch
  • ¼ cup White Granulated Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract optional
  • ¼ cup Lemon Juice

For Crumly Crust and Layer

  • cup Rolled Oats
  • 1 cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Butter (use coconut oil for vegan option) cubed, room temperature
  • ¾ cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon optional

Instructions

  • Set oven to 350 F/ 175 C and prepare a parchement-lined square baking pan.
  • Combine raspberries, lemon juice, sugar, corn starch, and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Stir properly.
  • Add into another mixing bowl rolled oats, flour, baking powder, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon powder and cubed butter.
  • Combine all ingredients together with clean hands, mixing thoroughly till the butter is well incorporated into the dough and there are no more visible lumps.
  • Pour mixture into a parchment-lined baking pan and push the dough down making sure it is even and flat.
  • Pour over the raspberry filling. It may have started breaking down by now but make sure to pour everything along with the juices on top of the crust layer.
  • Even the raspberry filling out with a spatula or spoon.
  • Lastly, sprinkle the remaining oatmeal dough all over the top of the raspberry filling to cover it.
  • Bake for 25 minutes in a 350 F/ 175 C preheated oven.
  • Let it cool down in the pan for an hour, then transfer it to cool down further in the fridge for another hour.
  • Gently lift out of the baking pan, set on a chopping board, and cut into the desired number of squares or bars. Serve.

Notes

Frozen raspberries can also be used in place of fresh raspberries.