Sometimes, you need a little more of a dessert for breakfast. Besides, you know what they say. You can have a little more sugar early in the morning because you burn it all up by the end of the day right??
Eh well, either way. A little breakfast treat? Yes please! Baked Apricot Blueberry Oatmeal Bars here I come.
Sometimes you just need a little chocolate to jumpstart your day. Honestly though, it's not a lot ofย chocolate. Theseย Baked Apricot Blueberry Oatmeal Bars are actually jam packed with, you guessed it, dried apricots, blueberries and also, fresh pineapple!
Speaking of the fresh pineapple, I cut one up, threw it in the 
Ok let's be real for a sec. I've seen a lot of oatmeal bars out there that are "healthy breakfast options". This bar is on the healthy-ish side and in my personal opinion, a bit better tasting for it ????. There is a fair amount of butter in the dough, but as Julia Child says, you can never have too much butter. And as I said, it's full of healthy fruit and plenty of oats.
Ok so, dig into these healthy-ishย Baked Apricot Blueberry Oatmeal Bars for breakfast on the go, or drizzle them with even more chocolate and make your self a tasty
dessert!
Baked Apricot Blueberry Oatmeal Bars
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 20 bars 1x
Ingredients
For the Bars
- 1 ยฝ cups quick cooking oats
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- ยผ teaspoon sea salt
- โ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ยฝ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ยผ teaspoon all spice
- 1 cup dried apricots, roughly diced
- ยฝ cup crushed pineapple, thoroughly drained (I used fresh pineapple and put it through the food processor, then strained with cheesecloth)
- ยพ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 8 ounces blueberries
For the Chocolate Drizzle
- 4 ounces dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- ยพ cup heavy whipping cream
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350หF. Line a 9X9 baking pan with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, sea salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and all spice. Stir until completely combined.
- Add apricots and pineapple. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
- Stir in melted butter and vanilla extract until completely combined (dough will be a little crumbly)
- Gently fold in blueberries.
- Spread the dough onto the prepared baking pan in an even layer.
- Bake for 30 minutes, until golden.
- Remove and cool on a wire rack for at least 1 hour up to over night.
- When cool to the touch, make the chocolate drizzle: In a microwave, melt chocolate and cream in 30 second increments, whisking together until thoroughly combined.
- Drizzle on top of the bars as desired. Freeze 2 minutes, until chocolate has hardened. Cut to serve.
- Cook Time: 30 mins
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