close

SIMMER + SAUCE

Raspberry-Coconut Oatmeal Bars

[Updated Recipe] Dessert bars, or simply “bars” and “squares,” are an American creation.  Bars are sweet snacks with a cake or a cookie-like texture, made in one pan, and enjoyed any time of the day.  Staples of neighborhood bake sales, class parties, and picnics, bars are great any time of the year.

I make my recipe for raspberry-coconut bars using seedless raspberry jam, but one could easily substitute it with another flavor of jam.  Apricot, strawberry, or blackberry jam would all be fantastic. Like cookies, bars have countless variations–seven-layer bars, lemon squares, cheesecake bites, chocolate peanut butter bars. They sometimes push culinary boundaries (if you ask me), like those that are piled high with fruit loops or sprinkled with chia seeds.

raspberry-coconut bars

I like bars, because they fall in the cookie family, and I’ve yet to meet a cookie I didn’t like.  This recipe for my raspberry-coconut bars is a favorite of mine that I make often. It incorporates some of my favorite ingredients: oatmeal, coconut, and raspberry. And some of my family even justify these as a great “breakfast bar“, they do have oatmeal in them so maybe that works after all.

raspberry-coconut bars

This recipe recently got an update. In the original one, I used organic quick oats (oats that are pre-cooked, dried, and then rolled and pressed slightly thinner than rolled oats) but I have switched over to using traditional whole oats instead for a heartier oat-bar texture.

raspberry-coconut bars

About the Author

Andrea Potischman

I am a professionally trained NYC chef turned CA mom and food blogger. I post about real food, with doable ingredient lists that are family friendly.

One thought on "Raspberry-Coconut Oatmeal Bars"

  1. Avatar photo Stephanie Chen says:

    I remember having these bars with you, Neal and the boys at that park in Portola Valley ages ago! I love these bars! Another winner!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Comment Policy

Simmer + Sauce reserves the right to remove or restrict comments that do not contribute constructively to the topic conversation, contain profanity or offensive language, personal attacks, or seek to promote a personal or unrelated business. Any post found to be in violation of any of these guidelines will be modified or removed without warning. When making a comment on my blog, you grant Simmer + Sauce permission to reproduce your content to our discretion, an example being for a possible endorsement or media kit purposes. If you don’t want your comment to be used for such purposes, please explicitly state this within the body of your comment. If you find evidence of copyright infringement in the comments of simmerandsauce.com, contact me and I will remove that in question promptly.