I mostly followed the recipe except that I increased the amount of oats to 1 cup as recommended by one of the reviewers of the recipe. They were a little drier than I hoped that they would be, but otherwise the bars had a good peanut butter and oats taste. Next time I think that I will experiment a little with the wet ingredients to see if I can make it more moist.
I also baked them in a 9x9 pan instead of a 9x13. I was afraid they would be a little too thin in the 9x13. I had to increase the baking time about 15 minutes to make sure they baked through.
The Review
on a scale of 1 to 5
- Overall Rating: 3
- Recipe Difficulty
- Rating: 1 (easy)
- Another basic recipe where you throw the ingredients together without any unusual or extra steps.
- Taste
- Rating: 4 (pretty good)
- The flavors balanced each other out well. It had a good, but not overpowering, peanut butter taste.
- I am glad I doubled the amount of oatmeal in the recipe. The taste of the oatmeal was present but again was not overpowering.
- I used milk chocolate chocolate chips because that is all I had in the house. They tasted good on the top of the bars, but I would like to try it with semi-sweet or dark chocolate to get a stronger chocolate flavor without all the extra sweetness.
- Texture
- Rating: 3 (not terrible, but could be better)
- As with most peanut butter recipes, I felt that these bars were a little too dry. I would like to make them more moist and chewy.
- Hints and tips
- If you want to taste more of a oatmeal, double the amount called for in the recipe.
- If you bake it in a 9x9 pan, increase the cook time to 40-45 minutes.
- Would I make these brownies (bars) again?
- Yes, but as I stated earlier, I plan to make changes to see if I can improve on the texture.
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