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I love Trader Joe’s Guava Fruit Spread! Now, what if you don’t have any? Then you mix and match your version any which way you want. You can use raspberry, strawberry, peach…or a pumpkin butter or apple butter…go wild, it works with all fillings 🙂 .

Ingredients

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1½ cups all purpose flour
1 stick of butter, melted, plus 4 tablespoons more
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
2½ cups rolled oats, not quick cooking, divided
1½ cups guava fruit spread (or whatever jam you love)
1 cup of brown sugar

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Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 9×12 baking dish. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together with an electric mixer your flour, 1 stick of melted butter, sugar, baking soda, and egg. Stir in 1 cup of rolled oats.
Take this batter and press it into your prepared baking dish as the “crust”. This batter is thick. I just take a spatula and press it across.
Next, spoon your jam over the “crust” layer (if it doesn’t spread evenly, that’s okay because it will melt while baking).
In a separate smaller bowl, stir together your remaining oats, melted butter and brown sugar. Sprinkle this mixture across the top of your bars.
Pop your bars in the oven and bake about 25 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Remove from oven and allow to cool 5 minutes before slicing into bars and serving.

Notes

If you happen to be a gluten-free house, the good news about these bars are that they’re easy to make gf-friendly too. We use Namaste g-free flour if you are making this gf. We also use Bob Red Mill’s g-free oats if we’re making it gluten-free too.