Oatmeal Apricot Cherry Bars
Oatmeal Apricot Cherry Bars have a sweet oatmeal cookie base layered with jam or fruit butter then finished off with dried cherries and apricots and a sprinkling of white chocolate chips.
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Servings: 16 bars
Ingredients
For the cookie base:
- ½ c. brown sugar
- 6 Tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 c. flour
- 1 c. oats
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
For the topping:
- 1/3 c. flour
- 1/4 c. oats
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ c. dried cherries chopped
- 1/2 c. dried apricots chopped
- ½ c. cherry jam or any fruit butter, preserve, or jam
- 1/3 c. white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8 x 8 baking dish with cooking spray.
- In a medium mixing bowl cream together the butter and brown sugar. Stir in the vanilla and mix until combined.
- In another medium mixing bowl combine the flour, oats, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and stir until combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix well.
- Press the mixture into the prepared pan and cook for 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine the butter, flour, oats, and brown sugar for the topping in a medium mixing bowl. Work into a paste and then add in the dried fruit.
- Pull the cookie bars out of the oven. Spread the cherry jam
over top of the bars. Drop spoonfuls of the fruit topping all over the bars. - Sprinkle with white chocolate chips.
- Bake for an additional 15 minutes or until golden.
- Cool completely on a wire rack and cut into 16 squares.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Culinary Cache