Prune Oatmeal Bars Recipe - Food.com (2024)

Submitted by Geema

"Except for special occasions I like to try to serve my family healthy food, including desserts. This one is delicious and actually has some very good nutritional value."

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Ready In:: 55mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 12 bars

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ingredients

1 cup chopped prune
¹⁄₄ cup sugar
1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 ¹⁄₂ cups rolled oats, not quick oats
¹⁄₂ cup brown sugar
³⁄₄ cup flour
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
²⁄₃ cup butter

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directions

Combine the prunes, sugar, lemon rind and lemon juice in a small pt.
Cook, stirring over low heat until thick.
Cool completely.
blend remaining ingredients until crumbly.
Pack half the oat mixture firmly into the bottom of a greased 8 inch square pan.
Spread with prunes and then top with remaining oat mixture.
Pat lightly into the pan.
Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.
Let cool before cutting.

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I tripled this recipe and only added 1/4 cup of sugar to the prunes. Also I reduced the brown sugar by a third,and I added chopped walnuts to the oatmeal mix. The results were very delicious, I am going to make this all the time!!!

taoka265
I followed this recipe to the T, except I used parchment paper instead of greasing the pan, and made 16 bars instead of 12. It is SO DELICIOUS, especially the second day. Thank you!

didu622
I found there was not enough prune mixture so I added more prunes. Maybe I didn't chop them small enough. I didn't have any lemons so I substituted some orange zest and mango juice for cooking the prunes. I had lemon zest but thought orange would go well. I didn't add any sugar to the prunes as I think they were sweet enough. I only used 1/2 cup butter in the crumble mixture. My husband and I both liked these squares.

mmv686
Yummy. My daughter will eat prunes this way! I think that next time I will try to make this with 1/3 of a cup of butter.

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Pipcat1
Geema, these are so delicious. I used 1/4 cup splenda for the sugar. They smelled so good when they were baking that we could hardly wait to sample them. Thank you for another great recipe.

Barb G.

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I found there was not enough prune mixture so I added more prunes. Maybe I didn't chop them small enough. I didn't have any lemons so I substituted some orange zest and mango juice for cooking the prunes. I had lemon zest but thought orange would go well. I didn't add any sugar to the prunes as I think they were sweet enough. I only used 1/2 cup butter in the crumble mixture. My husband and I both liked these squares.

mmv686

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Geema

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