Caramel Oatmeal Squares make great dessert treats – or bribes, if you need to motivate someone.
What you need to make Oatmeal Squares
Bars:
1 3/4 cup OATS
1 1/2 cup FLOUR
3/4 cup BROWN SUGAR
1/2 tsp BAKING SODA
1/4 tsp SALT (optional)
3/4 cup BUTTER (melted)
1 tsp VANILLA EXTRACT
1 cup PEANUTS
1 cup CHOCOLATE CHIPS
Caramel Sauce*:
3/4 cup BUTTER
1 1/2 cups BROWN SUGAR (firmly packed)
2 Tbsp WATER
1/4 tsp SALT
3/4 cup EVAPORATED MILK
1 Tbsp VANILLA EXTRACT
1/4 cup FLOUR (added after caramel has cooled)
*In a hurry? Instead of making caramel sauce, you use a 12 oz jar of caramel ice cream topping.
How to make Caramel Oatmeal Squares
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Make the caramel sauce:
- Combine butter, brown sugar, water, and salt in a medium sauce pan, over medium heat, stirring constantly.
- Bring to boil and continue to stir for 5 minutes depending upon thickness desired. The longer it boils, the thicker your caramel sauce will eventually be. If you don’t stir the pot while the caramel is cooking, it will be a disaster, not as bad as knocking over the cake at a wedding, but the caramel will burn, which will kinda suck.
- After 5 minutes, remove sauce from the heat and stir in evaporated milk and vanilla. Set aside to allow caramel to cool and thicken.
Grease a 9 x 13 baking pan. If you need a decent oven-safe baking dish, check out some current pricing for a Pyrex dish on Amazon.
- In a bowl, mix oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt.
- Stir in butter until well blended.
- Reserve one cup of mixture to use as a topping later.
- Press remaining mixture into bottom of greased pan.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until light brown. Let cool 10 minutes.
- Top with peanuts and chocolate pieces.
Take your caramel sauce and stir in 1/4 cup flour until smooth. Drizzle sauce over nuts and chocolate, keeping the sauce 1/4 inch away from pan edges (to avoid having a cooked caramel mess on your pan). - Sprinkle top with the reserved cup of oat mixture.
- Bake an additional 18-22 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let cool. Then cut into squares.
*In a hurry? Instead of making caramel sauce, you use a 12 oz jar of caramel ice cream topping. To help it pour, heat it just a little before adding the extra flour.
Enjoy! Chocolate, peanuts, caramel…what’s not to enjoy? Give this oatmeal squares recipe a try and let me know what you think.
For another tasty dessert bar recipe, try an almost No-Bake Marshmallow Bar Recipe. It’s super easy.
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