When you see strawberries and rhubarb on the dessert menu, it's a sure sign summer is here. This quick, easy and very popular recipe is wonderful for summer picnics and gatherings.
I've read somewhere that these scrumptious Awesome Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars won a Pennsylvania State Fair Butter Cookie Contest and it's no wonder with the mouth-watering sweet and tart flavors of strawberry and rhubarb pie flavor baked with a yummy oatmeal crust. I'm sorry I don't know who to credit here, but...
*Promising you won't stop at one.*
The flavor combinations are unbeatable. Really!
Some people turn their noses up at rhubarb, and it's no wonder. It's super sour and not eatable by itself, unless you like that kind of taste?
But when you add some sugar and strawberries to the rhubarb and cook them down over the stove, it changes the taste completely and it's pretty awesome.
If you love fruit bars, you'll love these too!
Blueberry Lemon Bliss Cheesecake Bars
Heavenly Strawberry Pretzel Dessert
Blueberry & Cream Crumble Bars
That's why they're called Awesome Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars! I think they should be called Freaking Awesome Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars...hmmm. 🙂 Rethinking?
Awesome Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars
Ingredients
Strawberry Rhubarb Filling
- 1 ½ cups fresh or frozen unsweetened rhubarb I used Dole frozen rhubarb, cut into ½-inch pieces
- 1 ½ cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Oatmeal Crust
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- ¾ cup butter softened
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Combine rhubarb, strawberries and lemon juice in 2-quart saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 8-12 minutes or until fruit is tender.
- Combine ½ cup sugar and cornstarch in bowl and stir into fruit mixture.
- Continue cooking, stirring constantly, 1 minute or until mixture comes to a boil.
- Continue boiling 1 minute or until thickened.
- Remove from heat and set aside.
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Combine all crust ingredients in bowl.
- Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Reserve 1 ½ cups crumb mixture.
- Press remaining crumb mixture onto bottom of greased 13x9-inch baking pan.
- Spread strawberry rhubarb filling over crust.
- Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
- Bake 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool completely and cut into bars.
I'm so happy to hear you'll make it again. Yes bake it a little longer and thank you for trying it Kathy! xo
So amazingly delicious but needed to be baked longer. I don't know maybe I overdid it with the fruit. But extremely tasty, will definitely make again
This is soooo spectacular! I was a little short on rhubarb (my first crop ever in the south), so I added a few extra strawberries. Still amazing with my coffee this morning. Thank you for sharing--and great photos.
Thank you Tim. Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed them!! xo
Delicious!
For me the filling was a bit thin for how thick the crust was, so I think I'll do a batch with double the filling. Either way these are fantastic though.
Thank you for letting me know Judy! I am so happy you liked them too! 😉
I made these last night and they were wonderful. Thank You.
Thank you Teresa!! 🙂
They look fab, Kim.