Nutella Cookie Butter Oatmeal Bars

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Nutella Cookie Butter Oatmeal Bars

Breakfast? Dessert? It's both! Stuffed with both Nutella and cookie butter. It tastes like delicious stuffed oatmeal cookies. Best of all, no mixer required.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 30

Total Time 45

Servings bars

Calories 385kcal

Author Mara

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
1 ¼ cups old fashioned oats
¾ teaspoon baking soda
10 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
½ cup brown sugar packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of salt
½ cup Nutella
½ cup cookie butter
melted dark chocolate optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9x9 pan with foil or parchment paper (leaving overhang on two sides for easy removal). Spray with nonstick spray. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk butter, brown sugar, and vanilla until well combined. Add flour, oats, salt, baking soda, and stir with a spatula or wooden spoon until combined.
Dump a little more than half of the dough (~ 1 cup) into the prepared pan and press it down into an even flat layer. Bake for 12 minutes.
Remove from the oven and drop Nutella and cookie butter sporatically onto the hot bars. Spread over the base evenly. Take the rest of the dough and crumble it over the top.
Return back to the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes until the topping becomes a light golden brown.
Let cool to room temperature. Slice and serve. If you slice before they are cool they will fall apart from being too soft.
(Optional) Drizzle dark chocolate on top

Notes

Nutritional information for this recipe is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. Please calculate your own nutritional information if you want it exact to what you make and use my calculations as a guide only.

Cool the bars completely! - If you cut them while still hot they will crumble!

Looking for clean cuts? Chill them before in the fridge or freeze and then run a sharp knife under hot water and slice.

Make sure to really press the bottom layer into the pan. This will keep it from crumbling apart when cutting the bars up. The top layer does not need to be pressed down though.

Properly Measure Flour - If you just dip your measuring cup into a bag of flour, chances are you have way too much flour due to packing. I keep a small digital scale to accurately measure flour BUT you can also use the spoon and level method too if you don't have a scale. To do this, use a spoon to fluff up the flour within your flour bag or container. Then use a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup and finally use the straight edge of a knife to level the flour across the measuring cup.

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