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Gooey oat bars with fruit, nuts, and dark chocolate

Decadent gooey bars with oats, fruit, nuts and dark chocolate on a buttery shortbread base.

Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Servings: 12
Course: Dessert , Baked Goods
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Shortbread base:
  • 175 grams flour cake or all-purpose
  • 200 grams cold salted butter cut into cubes
  • 50 grams sugar
Filling:
  • 80 grams salted butter
  • 65 grams white sugar
  • 100 grams dark brown sugar
  • 2 large free-range eggs
  • ¾ tsp vanilla extract
  • 70 grams rolled oats old fashioned not quick cook
  • 50 grams pecan nuts chopped a mix of fine and rough approx. 1/3 cup
  • 70 grams raisins 1/2 a cup
  • 65 grams dark chocolate chips or slab roughly chopped 70% cocoa (1/2 a cup)
  • Light sprinkle of sea salt flakes optional
  • Icing sugar to serve

Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F.
  2. Line an 20cm x 20cm (8inc x 8inch) square baking pan with non-stock baking paper.
  3. To make the shortbread dough, place the flour, butter, sugar into a bowl of a food processor and pulse until the mixture forms a dough. It will be quite soft.
  4. Lightly press the dough into the prepared baking pan and even out the surface. Bake for 20 minutes until starting to turn golden. Remove and allow to cool.
  5. While the shortbread base is baking, melt the butter in a medium pot. Cook this until it starts to go golden brown then take it off the heat.
  6. Add the sugars and allow to cool somewhat (it doesn’t not have to cool completely).
  7. Add the egg one at a time giving the mixture a good whisk in between.
  8. Add the vanilla, oats, raisins, and chocolate and give it a good mix.
  9. Spread this mixture over the baked shortbread and sprinkle lightly with sea salt flakes (optional). Put the pan back into the oven and bake for a further for 20 minutes. It should be golden brown and set.
  10. Allow to cool in the tin and then in the fridge to set further.
  11. Slice and dust with icing (powdered) sugar.

Notes

  • Cooline these gooey oat bars in the fridge will firm them up making them easier to slice.
  • They can be stored in an airtight container in a cool spot or in the fridge.