I finally stumbled on a recipe for oatmeal bars that's a winner...and I tweaked it a bit to make it even better. I think the key to these bars is the oatmeal, though...the Quaker oats are just too big and tough for me. I like to use the "First Choice" oats from Wellcome.
They're a smaller-sized oat, and it makes the bars taste better for some reason.
Here's the recipe if you want to try it at home:
Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
2 cups oatmeal
3/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup chocolate chips
cinnamon (add as much as you want)
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
honey (to drizzle on top of the bars)
pecans (optional)
Directions:
1. Mix the sugar, oil and eggs together.
2. Stir in the oats, flour, peanut butter, chocolate chips, baking soda, salt and cinnamon
3. Bake at 325 degrees for about 25 minutes.
4. Drizzle generous amounts of honey over the baked bars.
5. Enjoy!
How easy is that?
(*I forgot to add how much oatmeal you need in the original recipe...sorry about that! The recipe should be complete now.) :)
