This is one of these classic Amish recipes, basic baking but very versatile. Â The recipe calls for apple pie filling, but you could use cherry, blueberry, peach, or any other similar fruit. Â You can use a can of store-bought pie filling or you can use your own. Â This is a favorite after-school snack in The Amish Cook's home. Â The photos are from one of our recipe testers, showing the apples and then the final product. Enjoy!
FRUIT-FILLEDÂ OATMEALÂ SQUARES
Amish Fruit-Filled Oatmeal Squares
Ingredients
- 1 /2 cup butter or margarine (½ cup butter at room temperature)
- 1 /4 cup flour
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1 1 /2 cups quick oatmeal
- Â 21 oz can of apple pie filling
Instructions
- Mix first four ingredients together until crumbly.  Press 2 /3 crumbs in a 9" square pan.  Reserve other 1 /3 crumbs. Pour pie filling over crumbs in pan. Sprinkle the 1 /3 crumbs on top.  Bake at 325 for approximately 20 minutes or until golden brown and cool and cut into squares
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Cindy Harrison
This looks very similar to a crisp as I have always known it, except for it having the bottom crust. Even the ingredients are the same.
Kevin
Maybe the recipe should be called "Crisp With a Crust":) I think it'd be good with blueberries, I'll have to try that!
Bonnie
Was this recipe doubled ? The pan pictured is not a 9 inch square pan, looks more like a 9x13?
Thanks for any help.
Bonnie
Jerolyn Shaw
The pan sure looks square to me -- like a 9 inch pan. It is a close-up picture so maybe that's why you think it looks bigger.
Evelyn Lortz
Love this recipe. It's a big hit at our house.