Ooey-Gooey Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars

OMG these ooey-gooey salted chocolate chunk peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars. A mouthful, sure, however a fully scrumptious mouthful.

These infants are like a combo of your favourite peanut butter and oatmeal cookie baked right into a gooey, scrumptious blondie. That, plus puddles of darkish chocolate in each chew.

What extra may you need?!

I examined this recipe numerous instances to get the right texture and ratio of peanut butter to oats to chocolate, and so forth and so forth. Belief me after I say these peanut oatmeal butter cookie bars are perfection. Get pleasure from as-is or with a facet of ice cream for the most effective dessert to share with buddies.

What you’ll must make these peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars

These epic, gluten free peanut butter cookie bars have golden, crisp, cookie-like edges and gooey facilities that make that impossible to resist. You received’t imagine they’re each gluten and dairy free! Right here’s the whole lot you’ll must make them:

• Eggs: you’ll simply want two eggs in these peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars.
• Coconut sugar: we’re naturally sweetening them with coconut sugar, however you should use brown sugar for those who’d like.
• Peanut butter: you should definitely use a pure, creamy peanut butter for the right texture. Use the code ‘AMBITIOUS15’ to get 15% off my favourite model, Wild Pals!
• Coconut oil: some coconut oil ensures that they’ve an ooey-gooey middle.
• Almond flour: you’ll additionally want high quality, blanched almond flour to maintain them gluten free and provides them the precise texture.
• Oats: we’re utilizing rolled oats in these bars as a result of oatmeal cookies = love.
• Baking staples: you’ll additionally want vanilla extract, baking soda & salt.
• Chocolate: gotta have these darkish chocolate puddles in each chew! Be at liberty to make use of a chocolate bar, chocolate chunks or chips. Particular word on this beneath!
• For topping: I like sprinkling a bit of fancy sea salt on prime (who doesn’t?!)

simply hold them gluten free & dairy free

To maintain these peanut butter chocolate chunk cookie bars gluten & dairy free merely use gluten free rolled oats and dairy free chocolate!

The important thing to melty darkish chocolate

I like to recommend chopping up a darkish chocolate bar into chocolate chunks as a result of they’ll soften even higher than common chocolate chips or chunks.

Ingredient substitution FAQ

As with all recipes, I do know a lot of you should have questions on substituting components in these peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars. I at all times advocate sticking with the recipe as intently as potential for the most effective outcomes, however listed here are some swaps I can advocate (and a few that I don’t advocate):

• Can I make them vegan? I haven’t examined these peanut butter cookie bars utilizing flax eggs, however I do suppose they’ll work effectively. Let me know for those who strive it! Learn to make flax eggs right here.
• Can I take advantage of a unique nut butter? The peanut butter actually provides these cookie bars an incredible taste, however I believe an almond or cashew butter would additionally work.
• Is there a swap for the coconut oil? Be at liberty to make use of melted and cooled butter or vegan butter.
• Can I take advantage of common flour? Sadly, no, I might not advocate utilizing common, all function flour and can’t advocate an alternative to the almond flour.
• What about metal reduce oats? I additionally can’t advocate utilizing metal reduce oats as the feel might be a lot totally different. At all times be happy to make use of gluten free rolled oats although.

Need thicker cookie bars?

Should you like your peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars extra “oat-y” and thicker, be happy to make use of 3/4 cup of rolled oats as a substitute of 1/2 cup. I personally want utilizing 1/2 cup.

Ooey-gooey peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars in a single bowl

1. Prep your pan & oven. Preheat your oven to 350 levels F and line an 8×8 inch pan with parchment paper to stop sticking.
2. Combine the moist. Add the entire moist components to a big bowl and blend the whole lot till it’s tremendous clean.
3. Add the dry. Slowly combine the dry components into the moist components till effectively mixed. Then fold within the chocolate chunks (reserving some for the highest).
4. Bake ’em up. Prime your cookie bars with extra chocolate chunks and bake!
5. Cool & serve. Sprinkle the bars with some fancy sea salt proper out of the oven, then cool them utterly, slice and serve them up.

Don’t overlook the following pointers for good peanut butter cookie bars

• Pack the almond flour. Make sure you pack the almond flour similar to you’d with brown sugar. No must pack the coconut sugar.
• Use room temp components. Be certain that your coconut oil is totally cooled and your eggs are room temperature earlier than utilizing them in order that they don’t coagulate.
• Combine the moist components effectively. You need to combine the moist components for at the very least 30 seconds in order that the oil combines effectively with the opposite components. In any other case, you could have some oil separation (which we don’t need).
• Underbake them *barely*. The important thing to conserving these peanut butter cookie bars gooey and scrumptious is to barely underbake them. Take them out as quickly as the perimeters are getting barely golden brown. They’ll set extra as you allow them to cool.
• Cool earlier than slicing. Make sure you let the bars cool for at the very least 15-20 minutes earlier than slicing into them in order that they keep collectively effectively.

Storing & freezing ideas

1. To retailer: I’d advocate leaving them on the counter for not more than a day or two, after which storing the peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars coated within the fridge. They’re scrumptious straight from the fridge!
2. To freeze: enable the peanut butter cookie bars to chill utterly, then reduce them as directed. Wrap particular person cookie bars in plastic wrap, then in foil or a reusable bag. Freeze for as much as 3 months. When able to take pleasure in, merely thaw them at room temperature.

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Ooey-Gooey Salted Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time 20 minutes minutes

Complete Time 35 minutes minutes

ServesServes 16 servings

Wonderful, ooey gooey peanut butter oatmeal cookie bars made with a mixture of almond flour and rolled oats for the right texture. These gluten free peanut butter cookie bars are naturally sweetened with coconut sugar and have puddles of darkish chocolate in each chew!

Elements

• Moist components:
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup (154g) coconut sugar (or sub brown sugar)
• ¾ cup (192g) pure creamy peanut butter
• ¼ cup (56g) melted and cooled coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Dry Elements:
• 1 cup (112g) packed high quality almond flour
• ½ cup (48g) rolled oats (in order for you them thicker/extra oat-y you are able to do ¾ cup however I want ½ cup)
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (125g) darkish chocolate chunks or chocolate chips (dairy free if desired), divided
• Fancy Maldon Salt, for sprinkling on prime

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 levels F. Line an 8×8 inch pan with parchment paper.

• In a big bowl, combine collectively eggs, coconut sugar and peanut butter till clean and creamy. Subsequent add within the melted and cooled coconut oil and vanilla and blend collectively once more till it is vitally clean and effectively mixed. This could take at the very least 30 seconds to combine till clean, you don’t want any oil separation.

• Add the dry components to the moist components till effectively mixed: almond flour, oats, baking soda and salt. Lastly fold in ¾ cup of the chocolate chunks/chips, you’ll reserve ¼ cup for sprinkling on prime.

• Add the batter to the ready pan and evenly unfold out with a spatula in direction of the perimeters. Sprinkle the highest with remaining ¼ cup chocolate chunks. Bake for 20-25 minutes till the perimeters are BARELY golden brown. The trick with these blondies is to barely underbaked them so that they keep good and fudgy and gooey. As soon as accomplished baking, sprinkle with sea salt. Enable blondies to chill for 15-20 minutes earlier than slicing into so that they don’t collapse. Reduce into 16 squares.

Recipe Notes

To make vegan: I haven’t examined these with 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoons flaxseed meal + 6 tablespoons water) however I believe they may work effectively.
I like to recommend utilizing a chocolate bar to chop your personal chocolate chunks, they soften amazingly into every chew of the bar.
To retailer: I’d advocate leaving them on the counter for not more than a day or two, after which storing the cookie bars coated within the fridge. They’re scrumptious straight from the fridge!
To freeze: enable the cookie bars to chill utterly, then reduce them as directed. Wrap particular person cookie bars in plastic wrap, then in foil or a reusable bag. Freeze for as much as 3 months. When able to take pleasure in, merely thaw them at room temperature.

Diet

Serving: 1barEnergy: 269calCarbohydrates: 26.1gProtein: 5.6gFats: 18.1gSaturated Fats: 7.1gFiber: 3.1gSugar: 19.7g