Recipe: Oatmeal Fiber One Berry Breakfast Bars
Description: I got this recipe from Family Fun recipes and I knocked down the sugar, and substituted Fiber One cereal for part of the oats. I also made the size of the bars a more reasonable 12 per pan instead of 16.
Ingredients: [{"text": "1 cup flour"}, {"text": "1/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed"}, {"text": "1/2 cup butter, cold and cut into small cubes"}, {"text": "1 1/2 cups quick-cooking rolled oats"}, {"text": "2 tablespoons orange juice"}, {"text": "1 cup Fiber One cereal"}, {"text": "1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed"}, {"text": "2 tablespoons flour"}, {"text": "1 pinch salt"}, {"text": "3 1/2 cups blackberries (or 18 ounce of any kind of Berry)"}, {"text": "1 tablespoon lemon juice"}]
Instructions: Heat the oven to 375&deg;. Grease a 9- by 13-inch pan.
Add the flour, light brown sugar, and salt to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse once or twice to combine, then add the butter and pulse five or six more times until coarse crumbs form. Add the oats, Fiber One and pulse two or three more times.
If you don't have a food processor, use a blender to pulverize the Fiber One and then hand mix the ingredients mentioned above.
Remove 1 1/2 cups of the mixture and set it aside. Add the juice to the remaining mixture and pulse three or four times until it's just moistened. Press this mixture firmly and evenly into the bottom of the pan using your fingers or the bottom of a measuring cup.
For the filling, whisk together the sugar, flour, and salt in a medium-size bowl. Add the fruit and lemon juice and gently toss the mixture using a rubber spatula until the fruit is coated. Distribute the filling over the crust.
Sprinkle the reserved crumb mixture over the filling. Bake the dish until the top is golden, about 35 to 40 minutes. Let the pan cool on a wire rack for about 2 hours, then cut the sheet into 12 bars. Store them in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
