Strawberry Bars
Recipe: #5346
May 06, 2012
Categories: Breakfast, Desserts, Cookies, Snacks, Strawberry, Birthday, Brunch, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, July 4th, Mothers Day, Picnic, Potluck Oven Bake, High Fiber, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Sugar Substitute, Bars, Kosher Dairy, more
"OMGosh, you have to try these!! These are now a staple at my house and better yet? They are healthier than most! Please note I use a combination of butter and oil in the topping; when I try all butter, it's too dry and crumbly. Try it the way you want and enjoy!"
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (67.2 g)
- Calories 221.8
- Total Fat - 11.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.4 g
- Cholesterol - 15.3 mg
- Sodium - 142.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 28.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.6 g
- Sugars - 14.6 g
- Protein - 2.7 g
- Calcium - 33.1 mg
- Iron - 1.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375. Combine chopped strawberries, 1/4 C water and Agave Nectar in medium size pan over medium-high heat. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally.
Step 2
Once at a boil, add slurry of cornstarch and tablespoon of water. Mix well with strawberries, bring to boil and let boil, stirring often, for 1 or 2 minutes. Remove from heat, set aside and let cool to room temperature.
Step 3
While strawberry mixture cooling, mix together topping dry ingredients. Cut in butter into mixture until it looks like course sand. I add approximately 4 tablespoons of oil to the mixture to make sure it's not too crumbly. You may use 1 1/2 sticks of butter if you'd like and omit the oil.
Step 4
Press half of the topping mixture into the bottom of an 8x8 baking pan. Spread cooled strawberry mixture on top of bottom crust. Add rest of crumb topping and gently press into strawberry mixture.
Step 5
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Be careful removing from oven and the filling may be bubbly and lava-like! Let cool completely. Yum!
Tips
No special items needed.