This dessert - Amish Fruit-Filled Oatmeal Squares - is wonderful, kind of - as the name implies - an oatmealy, fruity square snack. Now, if you are an Amish cook you could simply walk to your canning room and choose between home-canned blueberries, peaches, strawberries, apples, or any other fruit.
This Amish Fruit-Filled Oatmeal Squares dessert can be modified to use whatever fruit you desire and that is what makes it so versatile and delicious! While chocolate, in my opinion, is the gold-standard for desserts, this type of dessert is a close, close second.
This type of dessert represents classic Amish cooking and baking. The Amish - historically - have had pretty bare pantries, only stocking what is needed and necessary. Even today you won't necessarily find bags of Doritos in most Amish pantries. You'll have your baking basics: flour, butter, sugar, molasses, and a few other staples. And from those few staples a lot of desserts can be made, including this one! Most Amish cooks would have some sort of home-canned fruit-filling on hand
At about the 20-minute mark the oatmeal topping on this dessert really begins to brown, so if you don't want it quite that brown, bake it for 15, but if you like your super crisp (I'm one of those people), go a little bit longer to 25 minutes. A very rich, tasty dessert, enjoy!
🧑🍳 Amish Fruit-Filled Oatmeal Bars
- 1 /2 cup butter or margarine, softened but not melted
- 1 /4 cup flour
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1 1 /2 cups quick oatmeal
- One 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 and cool and cut into squares
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Amish Fruit-Filled Oatmeal Squares
Ingredients
- 1 /2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 /4 cup flour
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1 1 /2 cups quick oatmeal
- One 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 and cool and cut into squares
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