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September 16, 2025
Raspberry Jam Oat Bars Recipe
The attraction of a crumble pie however in handy hand-held type, Raspberry Jam Oat Bars have a buttery oatmeal biscuit base, a layer of jam, then topped with a crumble. Love how the identical combination is used for the bottom and crumbly topping. Useful – and quick to make!
These are deliciously buttery crumble bars which might be good for any event. You’ll love the mixture of the candy fruity jam filling sandwiched between the oatmeal cookie base and the crumbly golden topping.
And also you’ll particularly love how fast these are to get within the oven! Comparable jam bar recipes name for softened butter to be creamed with an electrical beater (like for oatmeal cookies) or rubbed into flour utilizing your fingers (like for shortbread).
In distinction, my recipe begins with melted butter which is simply combined with a picket spoon with oats, flour and many others. I’ve made it the usual approach, and my approach, and the distinction is barely discernible.
So my simpler approach it’s!
Whereas these are made with raspberry jam, it may be made with any jam flavour your coronary heart needs. Strawberry, blueberry, marmalade, apricot!
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Jam – As famous above, any flavour jam you need can be utilized! I used raspberry.
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Rolled oats – Not fast oats or steel-cut oats. Simply plain conventional oats.
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Flour – Simply plain / all objective flour. Wholemeal / wholewheat flour will work too. I haven’t tried with gluten-free flour or almond meal (floor almonds).
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Butter – Unsalted butter. No have to deliver to room temperature as we are going to soften it.
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Sugar – Brown sugar provides pretty caramel-y flavour to the bottom. Nonetheless, in case you’re out, white sugar could be substituted.
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Egg – A big one, from a carton labelled with the dimensions “giant”. Business commonplace is 55 – 60g / 2 oz every.
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Baking powder – Simply 1/2 teaspoons provides a little bit of elevate. It doesn’t make the biscuit base cake, it simply prevents it from baking right into a concrete block.
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Salt – Only a pinch, to deliver out the opposite flavours. It doesn’t make it salty.
One oats biscuit combination is used for the bottom and the crumbly topping. Handy!
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Oat cookie combination – Soften the butter in a bowl within the microwave. Combine in sugar, then egg, then the flour, oats, baking powder and salt.
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Unfold in pan – Line a 20cm/8″ sq. steel pan with paper with overhang to make it simple to elevate out later. Unfold 1 1/2 cups of the oat combination throughout the bottom. I partially unfold it out utilizing a picket spoon, semi slicing / urgent the clumps. Then I end it with my palms.
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Press the bottom in firmly and make the floor moderately easy. We’re making a country dish right here, so no have to go to city on an extremely easy floor.
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Unfold jam throughout the floor. In case your jam is a bit agency jelly-like, you would possibly wish to heat it up briefly to make it simpler to unfold.
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Crumble remaining oat combination throughout the floor utilizing your fingers.
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Bake for half-hour at 200°C/400°F (180°C fan-forced) or till the floor is golden. Cool within the pan earlier than lifting out utilizing the overhang paper and slicing into 16 squares.
TIP to hurry up the cooling: cool half-hour on the counter, half-hour in fridge.
These actually may be one of many quickest bars ever to make. Nicely, the 5 Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are a scorching contender for the World’s Speediest Bars too. 🙂
Tuck them into lunch packing containers. Take them to e-book membership. Serve them for afternoon tea.
Or, for one thing totally different, serve them as dessert, heat like apple crumble with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on high. YES! – Johnsat x
PS These caramelised bits alongside the perimeters are the BEST. Like a chewy sweet. I’ll combat you for them!
Ingredients
- 125g / 1 stick unsalted butter , melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar , tightly packed
- 1 large egg (55-60g / 2 oz)
- 1 1/2 cups flour (plain / all-purpose)
- 1 1/2 cups rolled oats (traditional oats, not quick, instant or steel-cut)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup raspberry jam (or other flavour)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan). Grease a 20cm/8" metal pan with butter then line with baking/parchment paper with overhang (so it can be lifted out once cooked).
- Oatmeal cookie base – Melt butter in a microwave proof bowl. Mix in sugar until lump free. Add egg then mix until incorporated. Then add flour, oats, baking powder and salt and mix until you can no longer see flour.
- Base – Spread 1 1/2 cups of the mixture in the prepared pan, and press in with your hands. Spread with jam (microwave to loosen, if needed), then use your hands to crumble the remaining mixture over the top (Note 3).
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until the top is deep golden. Remove and allow to fully cool in the pan (~ 2 hours) before lifting out of the tin using the baking paper. (Speed things up: 30 min counter, 30 minute fridge)
- Cut into 16 squares. Enjoy!
Notes
1. Crumble topping – The mixture will be a bit clumped together so use your fingers to crumble it onto the top.
2. Optional extra: 1/2 cup of chopped nuts into the biscuit mixture.
3. Store in an airtight container for 5 days in the fridge. Bring to room temperature before eating!
Nutrition per slice, assuming 16 slices.
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