Jam Squares
This recipe makes delicious layered oat squares with jam filling. You can use any kind of jam you like and it will be good.
Ingredients
Serves: 18
- 250g butter, softened
- 1 cup (150g) packed brown sugar
- 1 3/4 cups (220g) plain flour
- 2 cups (300g) rolled oats
- 3/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup (60g) chopped walnuts
- 3/4 cup fruit jam, any flavour
Directions
Preparation:25min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:50min
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Grease a 20x30cm baking dish.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Combine the flour, oats, bicarb soda and cinnamon; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the walnuts. Set aside 2 cups of the mixture. Press remaining mixture evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. Spread jam over the base and crumble the reserved oat mixture over the top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes until golden. Cool before cutting into squares.
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I have made this recipe twice in one weekend. It is very good. Here are some tips. Use the 9 X 13 pan but you will need to reserve only about 3/4 C of crumb mixture- otherwise there won't be enough to pack into the pan. I reserved all of the walnuts for the topping. I added 1 TSP of Vanilla and subbed nutmeg for cinnamon. Oh one more thing... I used half a jar of jam for each batch. - 15 Mar 2009 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
These are a delicious healthy snack..... I used all applesauce in place of the butter. It makes a soft bottom crust, then i mixed 1 - 1 1/2 cups more oats into the remainder of the mix, to make it more crumbly for the top. I used rasperry jam. They're just the right amount of sweet. - 16 Dec 2011 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
We really like these. We were looking for a healthy treat, though, so I substituted 1/2 cup applesauce for 1/2 cup of the butter. It added a really good flavor, reduced the fat, and I think helped the improve the crumbly factor other reviewers have mentioned--they stuck together just fine. However, one reviewer said she left out the sugar entirely and put tons of jam so I tried to just put half the sugar and tons of jam. It was okay but next time I'm just gonna put the sugar. Half the sugar = breakfast snack (not a problem), but all the sugar = treat (yum!). - 21 Jan 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)