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Chewy Date Oat Bars with Orange

Buttery, chewy oat bars with a golden crumb top and a jammy orange-scented date filling in the middle.

Chewy Date Oat Bars with Orange

Ingredients

  • 10 dates250 gMedjool dates, pittedchopped
  • ½ cup (120 ml)120 gOrange juice
  • ¼ cup60 gWater
  • 2 tsp4 gLemon zest
  • 2¼ cups180 gOld-fashioned rolled oats
  • 1 cup110 gAll-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup packed90 gBrown sugarpacked
  • ½ cup130 gUnsalted buttermelted
  • ¾ tsp2 gGround cinnamon
  • ½ tsp2 gBaking soda
  • ¼ tsp2 gSalt
  • 1 tsp4 gVanilla extract

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line an 8-inch square pan with parchment, leaving an overhang.
  2. Make the filling: in a small saucepan simmer the dates, orange juice and water over medium-low heat, stirring and mashing, for 6 to 8 minutes until thick and jammy. Stir in the lemon zest and let it cool slightly.
  3. Make the oat crumble: in a bowl stir together the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
  4. Stir the vanilla into the melted butter, then pour it over the oat mixture and mix until evenly moist and clumpy.
  5. Press about two-thirds of the oat crumble firmly into the pan as the base.
  6. Spread the date filling evenly over the base.
  7. Scatter the remaining one-third of the oat crumble over the filling and press it in lightly.
  8. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the top and edges are golden.
  9. Cool in the pan on a rack for at least 45 minutes so the bars set, then lift out and cut into 12 bars.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Milk, Gluten.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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