Strawberry Oat Bars Recipe

How to make it

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• Prepare your strawberries. Cap and wash them.
• Slice strawberries until you have 1 1/2 cups of strawberry slices.
• Now dice strawberries into a small bowluntil you have 3/4 cups of them. Keep them separate for now.
• Grease and flour 13x9 baking pan and preheat oven to 350.
• Measure out 1/2 cup of the cake mix and combine with the oats in a small bowl.
• Cut butter into oat-cake mix mixture until it looks like coarse crumbs then set it aside for your topping.
• Place your 1 1/2 cups of sliced strawberries in a blender or a food processor along with the 2 Tbsp of water and process or blend until smooth, then stir them into the diced strawberries in the small bowl. You will have a strawberry puree with chunks of strawberry in it. Set this bowl aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the rest of the dry cake mix with the egg whites, applesauce, spices and the 3/4 cup of water. Beat about 30 seconds at low speed of your mixer, just enough to moisten, then beat at medium speed about 2 minutes longer.
• Pour batter into your prepared pan.
• Gently spread the strawberry mixture evenly over the batter..
• Sprinkle with oat topping.
• Bake 30 to 34 minutes at 350, until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
• Cool completely in pan before cutting.