Hey everybody Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'll be showing you how to make Oatmeal Cookie Bars.
Cookie bars are a great lazy alternative to cookies. There's no chilling required.
No, scooping cookie dough portion after cookie dough portion. You get the idea.
Today, I'm going to be sharing a super simple recipe for oatmeal cookie bars.
The first thing you'll want to do is pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Next you're going to need 1 cup, or 2 sticks of melted unsalted butter.
Add 1 cup of tightly packed light or dark brown sugar,
1/2 cup of granulated sugar and give everything a good stir until your butter and sugar are well combined.
Now the reason we're using melted butter instead of softened butter, for these oatmeal cookie bars, is because it's going to really impart a nice buttery
flavor in every bite and it's going to make the cookie bars nice and chewy. An added bonus though is that now
you don't have to use an electric mixer because it's so easy to stir everything together by hand.
Now, we'll add the eggs. You will need 2 large eggs and 1 large egg yolk for today's recipe.
You do want these to be at room temperature,
and the reason we're using an extra yolk is because it's also going to add to that chewiness and that tender factor in these cookie bars.
Will also add one and a half teaspoons of pure vanilla extract and we'll give this a good stir.
Now we're going to set this butter mixture aside and we'll prepare our dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
You're going to need to add one and a quarter cups of all-purpose flour
Just as a side note, if you're maybe not from America, or if you don't use cup measurements,
and you use weights instead, I do have metric measurements included in the printable recipe.
So if you go down to the description and click on that,
It will have all of the metric measurements. Now, we're going to add two teaspoons of corn starch to our flour,
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder,
3/4 teaspoon of salt, and this is optional but I also like to add just a pinch of cinnamon.
You can add between 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon, depending on how much cinnamon flavor you like. Today I'm adding 1/2 teaspoon to my recipe.
We'll give everything a good stir,
and now we can fold the dry ingredients into your butter mixture from earlier.
You'll want to make sure the wet ingredients and dry ingredients are well combined.
So I like to use a spatula and repeatedly scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl while I'm mixing.
Now come the oats you will need 3 cups of old-fashioned rolled oats for this recipe.
We're going to stir these together really well.
At this point you can just bake your oatmeal cookie bars as is, but I love adding chocolate chips to mine. If you want to
eave these out, that's fine, but if you want to add them you'll need 2 cups of chocolate chips.
I'm going to be adding a mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips,
but sometimes I like to throw in butterscotch chips or caramel chips as well, whichever you prefer.
You'll want to make sure that chips are evenly distributed through your cookie dough.
Now our oatmeal cookie bars are ready to bake.
I like to bake mine in a 9x9 pan and I like to line that pan with parchment paper.
It makes cleanup a lot easier.
It's easier to lift them out of the pan and cut them that way, but if you don't have parchment paper,
you can just grease and flour your 9 by 9 pan instead. I use a metal pan for today's recipe,
so keep in mind that if you're using a glass dish,
it's probably going to take a little bit longer for them to bake. Make sure to spread this cookie dough evenly into your pan.
Now we will bake our oatmeal cookie bars in our
350 degree Fahrenheit preheated oven for about 35 to 40 minutes. To test that they're done,
I usually take a toothpick and insert it into the center of the cookie bars when it comes out.
It should have a few moist fudgy crumbs on it. There shouldn't be any wet
batter, or the toothpick should come out clean. And that is all there is to making these easy Oatmeal Cookie b=Bars.
I really hope you guys enjoyed this super simple recipe. If you try it out,
please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.