Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

It was when I was 5 years old, on a popular children’s show similar to Sesame Street. The goal of the segment was to teach young children how to get dressed by themselves: this was in the early 90s, therefore footage is thankfully not immortalized online.

Possibly even more fun than the filming process was when the show aired and everyone reconvened for a viewing party. One child’s mother brought in three plates of gooey chocolate chip cookie bars for the occasion, and not a single person left that day without having asked for the recipe. The bars would become a staple in my childhood home for many years afterwards.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

• 1 1/2 cups spelt or all-purpose flour (180g) (oat flour works; the texture is just a bit gummier)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup rolled oats (20g)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar or date sugar (90g)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup to 1 cup chocolate chips, depending on how chocolatey you want the bars to be
• 1/2 cup vegetable or coconut oil (80g)
• 1/2 cup applesauce (120g)
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract (9g)
• pinch stevia, or 2 tbsp sugar of choice
• 3 tbsp blackstrap or regular molasses (43g)

source chocolate-chip-cookie

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