Breakfast fruit bars

20 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
cupUncooked oatmeal
1cupFlour
½cupBrown sugar; packed
1teaspoonCinnamon
½teaspoonBaking soda
¼teaspoonSalt
1cupOrange juice
¼cupVegetable oil
1Egg; lightly beaten
1teaspoonVanilla
6ouncesDiced dried mixed fruit
2tablespoonsOats

Directions

Combine 1½ cups oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, soda and salt. Combine juice, oil, egg and vanilla and add to dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir in fruit. Spread into a 13x9 inch pan that has been sprayed with no-stick cooking spray. Sprinkle with remaining oats. Bake at 375 for 20-22 minutes or until lightly browned and edges pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely. Cut into bars. Store tightly covered. (Bars may also be frozen in individual bags. Thaw at room temperature or microwave on high for 30 seconds per bar.) Makes 20 bars.

Recipe by: Austin American Statesman 9/14/94 Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 546 by ctlindab@... on Jan 17, 1998