Oatmeal Bars

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1/2 cup shortening, room temperature
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1 1/2 cups quick oatmeal, not instant
• 1/2 cup medium shredded unsweetened coconut
• 1/2 cup rice krispies
• 1/2 cup nuts or 1/2 cup raisins or 1/2 cup other dried fruit or 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 line the bottom and up the sides of a sprayed 9" x 13" baking sheet or pan with parchment paper.
• 3 cream together brown sugar, golden syrup and shortening.
• 4 add egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
• 5 sift in flour, then add oatmeal and coconut. stir well to combine.
• 6 lastly, gently fold in rice krispies and chocolate chips or other additions.
• 7 press dough gently (so as not to crush the rice krispies!) into the pan.
• 8 bake 20 to 25 minutes until light golden brown. do not overbake.
• 9 carefully remove from the pan in one piece and use a pizza cutter to cut into bars or cut while in the pan (may wreck the non stick coating though!).
• 10 cool on a wire rack.