With just a handful of simple ingredients and a couple minutes of prep you can have these delicious brown sugar oatmeal bars in the oven and ready to devour. They make a perfect grab and go breakfast for busy mornings.
With just a handful of simple ingredients and a couple minutes of prep you can have these delicious brown sugar oatmeal bars in the oven and ready to devour. They make a perfect grab and go breakfast for busy mornings.
You could also serve them with fresh fruit and yogurt for a leisurely breakfast. Or pack them for an easy answer to the mid afternoon slump or after school treat for the kids!
By now we all know there are a few ingredients I can’t help but to love. Of course I can’t help but to put brown sugar in things when I have the chance.
There’s the brown sugar peach cobbler and zucchini mock apple crisp to show as an example of that. I just love the depth and warmth it adds to a recipe.
Even deeper than my love of brown sugar is my infatuation with oatmeal. I mean it’s healthy, super versatile and I live the texture it adds to food.
If you are a regular here, you know baked oatmeal is a staple on our breakfast table. Some baked oatmeal is dense or dry, but we like ours soft and fluffy.
Favorites include maple pumpkin oatmeal and pineapple right side up baked oatmeal just to name a couple. But we don’t only eat our oats baked.
There is also room in the table for favorites like apple pie steel cut oats and healthy chocolate oatmeal. Or make a batch of maple peanut butter oat bars for a chewy granola bar texture.
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Oooh, and there are cookies too. We can’t forget the cookies! A lot of our favorites include oatmeal. Take monster cookies, and great-grandma’s oatmeal raisin step-ons for example.
But these brown sugar oatmeal squares might be the most versatile of all. They could be served at a sit down breakfast or be grabbed on the way out the door for a quick morning bite.
They also make a perfect treat to tuck in your purse for a little snack at work or between errands. Have some ready for the kids when they get home from school to help give them the energy to power through homework or practice.
You could even serve them as a simple dessert for when you need a little something sweet but don’t want to go whole hog. There are just so many great ways to enjoy them!
What are your favorite grab and go treats?
Storage
Store your oatmeal squares in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Brown Sugar Oatmeal Squares
Ingredients
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 cups quick/instant oats
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter melted
- Optional: pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F and line your baking dish with parchment (optional, but makes removal a whole lot easier!)
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together all ingredients until well mixed.1 cup packed brown sugar, 2 cups quick/instant oats, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ cup butter, Optional: pinch of salt
- Divide mixture between two 8-inch square pans (or a 9×13) and firmly press into pan.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until golden and bubbly. Bars will be soft straight from the oven but will crisp up as they cool.
- Allow to cool for 5 minutes and then turn onto a cutting board. Run a knife along the edges if necessary to release. Then cut into bars while still warm.
- Cool completely and then store in an airtight container at room temperature until ready to eat.
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Would the recipe work with old fashioned oats? That’s all I have and I am snowed in.
It should work fine 🙂
@Carlee,
Yup, it did! Thanks!
Awesome! I am so glad it worked for you!
There’s something off with the numbers. 1 cup packed brown sugar has around 212g sugar, so if there’s 12 servings, that clocks in at around 18g sugar each. If the 1g sugar is correct, then the measurement for the sugar in the recipe should be 1 Tbsp rather than 1 cup.
The amounts are listed after the category in the nutrition info 😉
@SH, it’s 15g sugar, not 1
Are they
crunchy or softer and more chewy??
Neither, they're very crumbly. Is there a trick to making them stick together?
Mmmmm… Gotta try this! I do love oatmeal and all that you do with it 🙂 I turned one of your oatmeal desserts into a breakfast dish, and we love it!
There are never too many oatmeal recipes!
These remind me of granola bars. Perfect afternoon pick me up.
I think so too!
Brown sugar and oatmeal bars – that sounds like a great combination. You may get us eating healthy yet! Bars are such a convenient way to eat. Sometimes when we are in a hurry it is perfect. Nothing like grabbing something to eat on the way out the door. Thank you for another nutritious recipe.
I love all of the ways you can make oatmeal fun!
So few ingredients…but I bet these taste AMAZING!!!
Sometimes the simplest things are the best! Thanks!
Yum! I should be doing schoolwork but I think I might start baking!
Baking is way more fun than school work for sure!
I love this. Totally going to make these this weekend and see if my kids will eat them (otherwise, I get them ALL!).
Getting them all wouldn't be half bad! (But fingers crossed anyway!)
I just made an executive chef decision, lol, to make these bars this weekend, can't wait, man they sound good! You go have one sweet weekend friend!! xo
Yay! I hope you love them!