Strawberry Crumble Bars
This Carres granola aux Fraises - French Strawberry Bars recipe has an oat crumble crust dough with a homemade strawberry jam center that bakes up golden for a perfect lunchbox or picnic treat.
Servings 12 -16 bars
Calories 354kcal
Ingredients
Fruit
- 500 grams / 1 pound fresh strawberries hulled and diced
- 60 grams / ⅓ cup superfine/caster sugar
- 8 grams / 1 tablespoon corn starch
Streusel Dough
- 180 grams / 6.35 ounces butter room temperature
- 150 grams / ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 grams / ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 grams / 1 ¼ cups plain flour
- 135 grams / 1 ½ cups rolled oats
- 4 grams / 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- Line a baking tin with baking paper and preheat your oven to 180C/350F.
- Toss the strawberries, sugar and cornstarch into a saucepan on medium heat and simmer until thickened and reduced, approximately 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, toss the butter, sugar, ground cinnamon and vanilla extract in a bowl and whip until pale and fluffy, approximately 3 minutes.
- In a separate bowl, stir the flour, rolled oats and baking powder until combined.
- Toss the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir until the mixture resembles a rough crumble.
- Spoon ½ the oat crumble mixture into your baking tin and and press firmly until even.
- Top with the strawberry jam mixture and spread evenly before crumbling over the remaining oat mixture.
- Place in the oven and bake until golden, approximately 25 minutes.
- Remove and set aside to cool before removing from the tin.
- Slice and serve.
- Dig in!
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Notes
- Strawberries: Fresh or frozen strawberries work well here for the traditional take. You could easily replace with blackberries, apricots, plums or raspberries, virtually any soft fruit would be good in this.
- Baking tin: A 18x18 cm or 7x7 inch square baking tin works well here, though a rectangle tin would also work well. Note, the larger the tin from the one used here, the thinner your base and filling will be.
Nutrition
Calories: 354kcal