These quick bars combine my favorite flavors in one dessert. Â Pour yourself a big glass of milk (or if you’re naughty, like me make it chocolate milk). Â If you like peanut butter and jelly, then you are going to love these.
I used strawberry jam to make mine. Â I think they’d be awesome with grape or blackberry too. Â Or cherry or…really any kind of jam would be great in these bars.
I adapted the recipe for Cherry Oat Bars. Â I thought I’d be able to decrease the butter, since I was adding in peanut butter, but that didn’t work out. Â The photo of the ingredients only shows part of the butter you’ll need. Â I love recipes like this one that use common pantry ingredients. Â If you’ve got a nearly full jar of jam to spare, then you’ve probably got everything you’ll need to make these. Â
Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups quick oats
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 1/2 sticks 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 10-12 oz any kind of jam
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients, except the jam into a mixer bowl.
- Blend until well combined.
- Press half into a greased (or parchment paper lined) 8 inch pan.
- Spread jam over the first layer.
- Top with rest of peanut butter mixture, pressing lightly with your hands.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
- Cool completely before serving. These really do taste better cool.
I’m showing this post off at Pocket Change Gourmet Delicious Dishes party.
Do you think jelly would work as well? I have a sensory sensitive child!
Joan, yes I think jelly would work fine.
Those look amazing, Tiffany! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
How well do you think these would be to freeze? I’m always looking for snacks/breakfast things I can use with my picky toddler.
Traci, I think they would do fine being frozen. Great idea!
These look great!!! I love me some PB&J, so these have to be just as good! Stopping by from Pocket Change Gourmet! 🙂
OMG. I made these over the weekend and holy yumarama! I can’t stop eating them. Thank you for this amazing and simple recipe. LOVE it. I might never be able to make them again though as I’ve been stuffing my face with PB and J bars. SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD.
This sounds amazing!
Tiffany thank you for sharing your pb & j recipe I was looking all over the internet for a easy recipe and this appears …I’m going to try it this weekend sounds good..I might make a batch with just dry cranberries
I have family with peanut allergies so I used almond butter with almonds on top and they were soooo good! Everyone loved them! Thank you for the great recipe! I think I’ll try to make with almond & oat flour to make them gluten free and coconut sugar in place of the brown sugar to see how that works out.