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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Blueberry Oatmeal Bars

This is a healthy snack that you and your kids will love. It even has spinach in it but i would keep that to yourself (:

Ingredients
nonstick cooking spray
2 cups old fashion oats
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup balance trans-fat free margarine, chilled
1 cup no-sugar-added blueberry spread
1/2 cup spinach, puree


Instructions
Preheat oven to 375?. Coat an 8" x 8" baking pan with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and vanilla and stir to mix well.
Add the margarine and cut it quickly into dry ingredients with two knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal and is no longer powdery. Do not over mix?bits of margarine will still be visible.
Set aside about half of the oat mixture; press the rest firmly into the pan. Bake until lightly browned at the edges (but not fully baked), 13 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix the preserves with the spinach puree in a small bowl.
Spread blueberry mixture over the partially baked oat layer, then sprinkle with reserved oat mixture. Bake until topping is slightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Set the pan on a rack to cool completely before cutting into 12 bars



after the butter is added


puree the spinach

eat & enjoy

3 comments:

  1. Woohoo!! I'm going to have to try those soon. I wanna make those apricot ones we had too!

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  2. yeah thoes were really good!
    Phillip really like the Kabobs your mom made!!!

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  3. Hi Samantha!! I am just now visiting your blog, as I just realized you were a follower on my Recipe Box. :) This sounds like a great recipe and if it's cool with you, I'm going to alter a bit and use it for my parrot recipes - beakbites.blogspot.com - which I've just started up. Hope all is well with you guys! Tell Phillip I said hello! :)

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