Homemade Apple Oatmeal Bars
1 cup quick cooking oatmeal
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 1/2 cups apples, chopped or 3/4 cup apple butter (omit cinnamon)
1/2 cup sugar
Combine the first five ingredients, and pat half into an 8×8 inch pan. Layer apples and sugar. Crumble remaining mixture on top. Bake 35 minutes at 350°.
From Dining on a Dime
photo by: veganfeast
this looks sooo good…
… thanks for sharing this 
i keep thinking of these… they look soooo good… with a nice icy cold glass of milk too… yummo
I have a vision of a nice, warm square with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and warm caramel sauce drizzled all over…….:)
Is “quick cooking oatmeal” the same thing as instant oatmeal?
Thanks!
The difference in oatmeal is:
Instant is the kind you can just add boiling water to and serve. Like what comes in the packets.
Quick is the kind you cook but you only need to cook for a couple of minutes.
Old fashioned oats are the kind which need to cook much longer.
Most recipes unless other wise states use quick oats. This is what I call all purpose oats or everyday oats.
Hum…I bought old fashioned oats from Aldi for this recipe. They are supposed to cook for 5 minutes. Anyway I can use these…just cook them some ahead?
Anyone tried this? I hate to rebuy and not use these up. I have never bought oats before…my kids may like them for breakfast, but I have no idea.
Usually what happens when you use old fashioned oats in a recipe like this, the oats can have a slightly tough texture to them. The other oats become very soft and you almost don’t notice there are oats in them.
I made muffins which called for oats with my granddaughter this morning and she was so surprised because you couldn’t tell it even had oats in them at all because they had just melted away cooked in with the batter where if we had used old fashion we could have seen and felt the oats.
So you could try if you want. You might try it for breakfast for your kids. Add some honey, brown sugar, raisins, applesauce, nuts, dried fruit, butter, heavy cream or lots of things to it. We have a whole list of things to put in oats if you have a copy of Dining on a Dime you could check for more ideas in there.
I made these last night and they were excellent (I went ahead and bought the quick oats)! Thanks for a great recipe!
It seems like a ton of butter though, any ideas to cut down on the volume of butter?
Jana I’m sure someone may have some ideas. Actually 1 stick of butter is normal for a cookie or bar recipe. I don’t usually worry about it too much because I think 1 stick spread through out about 24 cookies isn’t that much and I will just eat maybe 1 cookie a day when I make something like this.
I find it interesting now after years of hollering about not eating so much fat I have seen 3 different things this week alone on how we need to start eating more fat and to be sure we at least get some fat in our breakfast. I have never tried to keep up with these things because after so many years of living if I had done everything that “they” said we should do I would be down to a celery stick and glass of water (and treated water at that). I just eat it all in moderation (one cookie not 3) and things like that.
Should I soften the butter first? Or should it be melted?
Amy it can be slightly soften but for something like this it doesn’t matter if you take it straight from the fridge. I wouldn’t melt it though because it would make it a sticky mess and too hard to work with.