These vegan oat bars are delicious, a flapjack with a jam layer. A raspberry flapjack is my favourite, with homemade raspberry jam. They obviously are sweet, but maybe not as sweet as the name suggests. I have updated the quantity of sugar in line with current thinking and reduced it by half. They are in the week three meal planner as a breakfast and a cake and bake. Just cut them to the size you like.
What you need to make jammy oat bars
- self raising flour. If you would like your oat bars to be gluten free, use a gluten free flour
- vegetable oil
- sugar. Use any kind of sugar, Muscovado gives a good flavour. In line with current thinking, I’ve reduced the sugar in this recipe to half what it was. If you prefer a different taste, increase it back up again
- porridge oats, I haven’t tried these with jumbo oats, I use the cheapest rolled oats
- jam – whatever jam you have
- a pinch of salt. Optional, but it does bring out the flavour
How to make jammy oat bars
- Mix everything except the jam together.
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Grease your tin if not using silicone.
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Spoon half the mixture into your baking tin and press well down with a spoon. This is an important step. If the mixture isn’t pressed enough, the finished bake will be crumbly and fall apart
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Spread over the jam
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Spoon in the remaining half of the mix and press down well again.
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Bake at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 for 20 minutes
- Once completely cooled, cut up into whatever size you prefer and store in an airtight tin. Or they will freeze well
What were the vegan oat bars like?
Delectable! I love oaty things anyway, and these are very moreish. They feel like eating cake for breakfast, but with all those oats, I’m hoping they’re not too bad!
Variations for vegan oat bars
- You could add vanilla to this mix, or cinnamon, mixed spice or ginger
- A layer of dried fruit would work, sultanas, chopped dried apple, dates or figs. I would put the dried fruit in a pan, add a good splash of water, and cook it down to a pulp, to give it some moisture, which I think it needs
- If you have apples or pears from the garden, cook some down to a thick puree and use that
- At Christmas time, a layer of mincemeat instead of jam would make a festive bake
- If you prefer savoury flavours to sweet ones, all sorts of options would be easy to make too. Omit the sugar and add:-
- A good layer of caramelised onions
- Buttery mashed carrot or parsnip
- Add sweet chilli sauce or my favourite Pataks aubergine pickle to the oats
- Or garlic, chilli and ginger
- Or 2 or 3 tblsps of a Pataks curry paste
- How about actual leftover curry in the middle!
Want some more oaty things?
If you like oaty things, you might like these oaty biscuits, often known as Twinks Hobnobs
Why Twinks Hobnobs? This came about when Cheap Family Recipes was being built and all kinds of recipes were being tried, frugalised and tested, lots of them many times. Twink was (is?) the nom de plume of a contributer to the boards on MSE, and wrote the hobnobs recipe. Hence, Twinks Hobnobs!
Oaty Biscuits. Delicious, very versatile and totally irresistible!
Or try these savoury flapjacks, totally gorgeous!
Savoury flapjacks, fragrant with rosemary, caramelised onions and sweet chilli, 15p
A flapjack with a jam layer. Or make it savoury
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Course: ,
Breakfast
Snack
Cuisine:
American
Vegan
Vegetarian
Dairy Free
Freezes Well
Nut Free
Vegan
Vegetarian
Servings: 18 squares
Cost per portion 3p
Calories: 174kcal
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Ingredients
- 130 g flour 45p/1.5kg, 4p, self raising
- 45 g sugar 65p/1kg, 3p
- 130 ml veg oil £1.09/1 litre, 14p
- 250 g oats 75p/kg, 19p
- 150 g jam 28p/454g, 9p
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Mix everything except the jam together.
- Grease your tin if not using silicone.
- Spoon half the mixture into your baking tin and press well down with a spoon. This is an important step. If the mixture isn't pressed enough, the finished bake will be crumbly and fall apart
- Spread over the jam
- Spoon in the remaining half of mix and press well down again.
- Bake at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 for 20 minutes
- Click here to start a 20 minute timer
- Once completely cooled, cut up and store in an airtight tin. Or they will freeze well
Equipment Needed
Notes
Costed at Asda October 2019
In line with current thinking, I've reduced the sugar in this recipe to half what it was. If you prefer a different taste, increase it back up again
You could add vanilla to this mix, or cinnamon, mixed spice or ginger
A layer of dried fruit would work, sultanas, chopped dried apple, dates or figs. I would put the dried fruit in a pan, add a good splash of water, and cook it down to a pulp.
If you have apples or pears from the garden, cook some down to a thick puree and use that
At Christmas time, a layer of mincemeat instead of jam would make a festive bake
If you prefer savoury flavours to sweet ones, all sorts of options would be easy to make too. A good layer of caramelised onions; buttery mashed carrot or parsnip; add sweet chilli sauce or my favourite Pataks aubergine pickle to the oats; or garlic, chilli and ginger; or 2 or 3 tblsps of a Pataks curry paste. How about actual leftover curry in the middle!
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Vegan Oat Bars
Amount per Serving
Calories
174
% Daily Value*
Fat
8
g
12
%
Saturated Fat
6
g
38
%
Sodium
6
mg
0
%
Potassium
64
mg
2
%
Carbohydrates
23
g
8
%
Fiber
2
g
8
%
Sugar
7
g
8
%
Protein
3
g
6
%
Vitamin C
1
mg
1
%
Calcium
10
mg
1
%
Iron
1
mg
6
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Sarah – it doesn’t;t make very much difference which flour you use. Self raising will give a slightly more rise result, but not very noticeable. If it helps, I usually only buy self raising, so invariably use that.
Hi Lesley,
you have flour in the ingredients list but above this at the top of the page you state you need self raising flour. Does this recipe use self raising flour or plain flour, please?
Anna – Fabulous! That sounds a great combination
Worked fabulously for me! Added 2 table spoons of unsweetened almond milk, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and used seedless strawberry jam. Topped with desiccated coconut and taste delicious! Thank you ☺️
Hi John
You’re right a redesign process has been taking place. Some posts had some mistakes and I’m going through checking them all as we speak. The recipe card had been omitted in this post, and I’ve put it back now, so you can go on and make your jammy oat bars!
If you spot any more errors before I get there, I’d appreciate you letting me know, thanks
Hi,
I loved this site in the past. I’ve just popped back for the weights for Jammy aoat Bars and noticed the site has been redesigned. For the life of me, I can’t seem to find the recipe for jammy Oat Bars. I’ve clicked on the main page, and clicked through to the meal plan that they’re associated with, and then clicked through there to arrive back at the same page with everything about the oat bars except the actual recipe.
I’m so glad you like them. They are proving very popular!
Hi Lesley, I’ve just done a batch of these flapjacks. They are absolutely delicious, thank you for sharing the recipe
There isn’t much sugar in the oat mix so you could replace it with the appropriate amount of sweetener. If I was going to do that I think I would leave the sugar out altogether and maybe also cut down on the jam, by as much as a half
Can you do this with sweetener instead?
I don’t see why not, they would be more like a flapjack. You could substitute other things for the jam, dates gently cooked with a little water to make a paste, or dried apricots treated the same way, or any of the value dried fruits (raisins, mixed fruit, sultanas)
Unless of course it’s the sweetness the others don’t like, in which case just go for the plain
Have you tried the oaty biscuits (Twinks Hobnobs)? http://www.thriftylesley.com/oaty-biscuits-1p-a-serving/
Would these be ok without the jam? No one in my house really likes jam except me but we all love oaty things (flapjacks etc) Thank you Lesley and keep up the fab work x
Please share your mincemeat muffin recipe. I think I am addicted to mincemeat and have a jar calling my name. 🙂
Mmm, yes, mincemeat would be nice. I made some muffins today using mincemeat, they are delicious and I had to promptly get them in the locked tin out of my way!
At least with individual portions we become aware of having 2nd’s and 3rd’s, even if we end up still having them 😉
Lesley it would be good portion control if it wasn’t so delicious. I fancy making it with mincemeat next. 🙂
the crumbles sound lovely, good portion control too!
I just made these and a sneaky taste tells me they are lovely – I just need to keep away while they cool. I used an 8″ round tin and made 4 individual apple crumbles with the extra mixture. I used my SILs homemade raspberry jam for the oat bars.
For the crumbles I used one small apple in each large ramekin (mine are pottery containers from a ready made shepards pies – meant to be thrown away!), a teaspoon of sugar and then some crumble mix on top. I cooked them along with the bars for the same time.
Thanks for sharing all your lovely recipes.
that’s a good idea. Vegans have to eat such large quantities of food to get their nutrition.
I am trying to tag recipes as vegan or vegetarian. At just £1 a day, lots are turning out vegan as meat, fish, dairy, eggs are all so expensive
What a great recipe! I am going to give this a try adding a few Tbls soya flour instead of the sr flour to boost the protein content for my 4 vegan teenagers.
Ooh, love the idea of apple and blackberry, I’ll have try that one, thanks
Thanks for this recipe, my housemates seem to love them! Here’s my tips/tweaks.
– I use a chopping board to press the oats down to give a nice firm texture, before adding the jam and once the top layer of oats is on.
-Once out of the oven, leave to cool fully before trying to cut up. I leave mine to cool with a chopping board and heavy pot on top to help firm them up.
-Instead of jam, I’ve been chopping up windfall apples, stewing them briefly and using them as jam. With a couple of frozen foraged blackberries chucked in as well its delicious.
Week 4 – can’t wait! Thank you for all your hard work.
I’m so glad you are finding things you like.
Am nearly at the end of planner 3 recipes now, so will start thinking about week 4 and what to put in it soon
they are pretty good. Only trouble I had with them was not scoffing half of them as a ‘snack’ – some snack! But then I do have a sweet tooth. Took one with me for breakfast when I had to leave really early, it worked very well, kept me going until lunchtime.
I’m loving your site, great ideas and I like the amount of detail. I’ve been waiting for this recipe after reading the week 3 plan, will be trying it out tomorrow. Thanks for your hard work in putting all of this together 🙂
Oh i’ll be making these they sound yummy 🙂