Oatmeal Fig Bars
Good for breakfast or a lunch box snack - anytime. These Oatmeal Fig Bars are happy either with a big plop of ice-cream on top or eaten right over the sink.
Servings 12
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened at room temp
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 C oatmeal
- 1 ½ C flour all purpose
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt *see note below if doubling
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 jar Trader Joe's Fig Butter 11 oz or 1 ⅓ cup approx *see note below
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grease or lightly spray a 9" square baking pan.
- Cream butter in mixer until creamy.
- Add brown sugar to butter and mix until lightened and well blended, about 2 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, until incorporated.
- Add vanilla to mixer.
- Combine next 5 ingredients in a medium bowl and lightly stir with a fork.
- Add dry ingredients into mixing bowl and mix on low until worked in completely.
- Pat ⅔ of mixture into bottom of prepared pan. If needed, use a piece of parchment paper sprayed with cooking spray to help spread it evenly in the pan as the dough will be somewhat sticky.
- Spread contents of entire jar of fig butter evenly over crust.
- Place (plop!) the remaining crust over the fig jam and lightly press down.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, checking for a golden color on top.
- Remove from oven and cool before cutting into bars.
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Notes
- Use your favorite jam or fruit butter - even homemade works.
- Stonewall Kitchen makes a fab Fig and Ginger Jam that works beautifully in these bars. Use the whole jar as well.
- Serve with ice cream (caramel, vanilla, butter pecan..even dark chocolate plays nice with figs!)
- Doubling the recipe. Can be doubled but only increase the salt to by ¼ teaspoon for a total of 1 ¼. Some readers have used only 1 teaspoon when doubling with great success. Also bake for 35 minutes and check every five minutes or so thereafter until golden brown.