Berry Delicious Breakfast Bars

BERRY DELICIOUS BREAKFAST BARS

PREP TIME: 10 minutes 

TOTAL TIME: 50 minutes

SERVES: appx. 12

Okay ,so I’m going to be honest—these bars are essentially dessert. It’s basically cobbler in the form of a bar you can eat on the run.

Not everything needs to be super healthy, right?! Dessert or not, I love these with coffee in the morning, or really any time of day. I usually wake up to find half the pan gone in the morning, some mystery monster having scavenged them in the night....

CRUST

2 cups old fashioned rolled oats

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup packed dark brown sugar

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon fine sea salt

¾ cup (1½sticks) unsalted butter, melted

FILLING

2-6oz container of fresh raspberries   

1 – 6 oz container fresh blueberries    

1 - 6 oz container fresh blackberries                             

1 peach cut into small pieces             

2 tsp lemon juice                             

½ lemon zest                                     

1 tsp vanilla                                    

½ C sugar

CRUMBLE:

¼ C sugar                                  

2 TB butter, cold cubed           

½ C oats, old fashned             

¼ C flour, white                        

1/8 tso cinnamon                    

¼ tsp salt

TO MAKE THE CRUST:

1 Preheat oven to 350f

2 Combine everything together in food processor and pulse until combined. 

3 Flatten out firm and even in bottom of 8x13” baking dish or similar size. 

4 Bake crust layer for 10 minutes, remove from oven. 

5 While baking make fruit mixture and crumble topping. 

FILLING:

Wash and drain fruit. You don’t have to dry completely. Stir together to evenly combine ingredients. Evenly spread on top of baked crust.

CRUMBLE:

1 Combine in food processor, pulse until butter is pea sized. Spread evenly over fruit

2 Bake 30-40 minutes until sides are super bubbly and sticky looking, and crumble is lightly golden. 

 Excerpted (or Adapted) from SUNNY-SIDE UP by Waylynn Lucas. Copyright ©2019 by Waylynn Lucas. Excerpted by permission of Rodale, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.