Saturday, September 24, 2022

Love at First Bite, Gluten-Free Oatmeal Tomato-Ginger Jam Bars or Peanut Butter & Grape Bars, Sinfully Delicious!

 







1 cup old fashioned rolled oats * used Trader Joe's Oven Toasted Old Fashioned Organic Oats

1 cup of organic coconut flour *used Bob's Red Mill GF

1/8 teaspoon of baking soda

2/3 cup of brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 cup of butter

dash of tumeric

dash of nutmeg

Tomato Ginger Jam

or

Peanut or almond butter *Justin's Classic Peanut Butter Spread

Grape Jelly *Smuckers Squeezable grape jelly. 


Directions: In a mixing bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg, and vanilla extract and mix. Next, in another bowl, reserve 1/2 of a cup of the flour/oat mixture. Cut in butter till mixture resembles coarse crumbs and press in to a slightly greased 9x9X2 baking pan. With a tablespoon place dollops of tomato ginger jam on the coarse mixture and sprinkle remaining reserved cup of the flour oat mixture on top. A variation of this is using peanut butter and grape jelly and alternating rows and dollops of the mixture. 


A version of this recipe is found in my cookbook, Love at First Bite, The Unofficial Twilight Cookbook by Gina Meyers or Bite at Twilight. Can be purchased here: https://serendipitymediagroup.com/books-for-sale


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