39) Chocolate Oatmeal Bars
Servings: 14 Time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips
¼ cup fat-free sweetened condensed milk
½ cup whole-wheat flour
¼ cup old-fashioned oats
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon vanilla
1/6 teaspoon salt
¾ cup packed brown sugar
1/8 soybean oil
1 teaspoon butter, softened
1 egg
Instructions
- Melt chocolate chips and milk in 1-quart heavy saucepan on low heat and stir occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 300°C. Spray 8-inch or 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Combine oats, flour, baking soda, powder and salt in a big bowl. In another bowl, stir in vanilla, egg, brown sugar, flour and whisk with fork till smooth. Reserve half cup of dough for topping.
- Press the leftover dough in pan. Pour in chocolate mixture over dough. Add 1 tablespoon oats and butter to reserve dough. Mix with pastry fork till it crumbles. Drop little spoon-full of oat mixture evenly over chocolate mixture.
- Cook for 20 minutes till golden brown and firm. Allow to cool for 1 hour and cut into squares.
