Thank you to reader Karen for submitting one of her favourite recipes, Raspberry and Oat Slice. It looks delicious, but I am very intrigued by the spinach puree!
Raspberry and Oat Slice
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 mins
Ingredients
- 2 cups instant oats
- 1 ¼ cup plain flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract or imitation vanilla
- ¾ cup Butter
- 1 cup homemade Raspberry or blackberry jam
- ½ cup spinach puree
Instructions
- Preheat oven on 180C.
- Lightly grease a square baking tray.
- In a large bowl combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and vanilla, mix well.
- Add the butter and mix well but do not over mix. You will still see clumps of the butter.
- Set aside 1/3 of the oat mix.
- Press remaining mix into the tray. Bake until lightly browned on the sides but not fully baked (about 10 – 15 minutes).
- Mix the spinach and raspberry jam together in a small bowl.
- Spread the raspberry mixture over the part baked layer, and top with the remaining oat mixture, baking until the topping is slightly browned (approx. 20 – 25 minutes).
- Allow to cool on a rack before cutting into bars.
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