Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook shares a recipe! Enjoy these delicious bars spread with date-apricot filling that’s perfect for a dessert.
Orchard Date-Apricot Bars
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 1 hr 50 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
Date-Apricot Filling
- 1 1/4 cups dates (8 ounces pitted)
- 1 1/2 cups dried apricots, cut-up (8 ounces)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
Bars
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup canola or soybean oil
- 3/4 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed or flaxseed meal
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1In medium saucepan, mix all filling ingredients until well blended. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 10 minutes. Cool completely.
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Step2Heat oven to 400°F. Spray rectangular pan, 13x9x2 inches, with cooking spray.
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Step3Mix brown sugar and oil in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients; mixture will be moist and crumbly. Press half of the crumb mixture evenly in bottom of pan. Spread with date-apricot filling. Top with remaining crumb mixture; press lightly.
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Step4Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool in pan on wire rack about 1 hour. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 6 rows.
Nutrition
150
Calories
6g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
23g
Total Carbohydrate
17g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 150
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 90mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 170mg
- 5%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 23g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 9%
- Sugars
- 17g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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