Easy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars with Quick Oats
Amish Oatmeal Chocolate Chip bars are easy and quick to make. Sometimes I want some cookies, but I don’t have a lot of time to bake, or I don’t feel like taking the time to bake them. Cookies can be time-consuming since you have to scoop and bake them in batches. So bars are the perfect alternative.
What I love about these bars is that they are so fast to make, and they taste just like a cookie. Just mix them, spread the dough onto a cookie sheet, pop it into the oven, set the timer, and you can move on to your next project.
Baked Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate Chips
Baking is one of my favorite hobbies. It’s so much fun to create delicious food. And I think it would be fun to run a bakery/deli/coffee shop someday. But I don’t know if that will ever happen? So for now, I have fun baking for my family. And with six of us in the house, it sure doesn’t take long for food to disappear.
So when I bake cookies or bars, I usually make a large batch and put some in the freezer. It keeps them fresher, and I also have hopes that maybe they won’t all get eaten as quickly if they’re not sitting out where everyone sees them.
Most of the Amish eat lots of desserts
I really don’t know if the Amish eat more dessert than a lot of other people? But I do know that Amish women do a lot of baking. And most of them know how to make good food.
Amish ladies are stay-at-home moms, and they are always busy. Most of them have large families, and they cook three meals a day. So they spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
And it seems to me like the Amish men tend to love their meat and potatoes, and they love their sweets. The women will always try to cook and bake to please their husbands, so if the man likes to have dessert with his meal, his wife will probably try to make sure she has dessert for him.
How to make Oatmeal chocolate chip bar cookies
Making these chewy oatmeal bars is super easy. Combine the eggs, oil, melted butter, and vanilla in your mixing bowl. Mix until creamy.
In a separate bowl, whisk together your flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Add the brown sugar, oats, and chocolate chips. Mix.
Stir together the wet and dry ingredients. Spread the dough onto a 13 x 18″ sheet pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. Cool and cut into squares.
Enjoy the best oatmeal chocolate chip bars! They are so moist and delicious!
Homemade cornstarch pudding (click here) would be great to serve with your oatmeal bars.
Soft and chewy Amish gingersnap cookies recipe here
Recommendation for serving bars
A good bar scoop is a must-have… I found a cheap one at a garage sale and used it all the time, until one day it got legs and walked off. I am missing it so much and need to get myself a new one. Because they are the perfect size for scooping and serving bars and so many other things like lasagna, etc.
And men, if your wife likes to bake and doesn’t have a big stand mixer, here’s a great idea for her next birthday gift ;). I would be lost without my kitchen-aid mixer.
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Amish Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
Ingredients
- 5 large eggs
- 1 1/2 c. vegetable or canola oil
- 1/2 c. melted butter
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 c. white sugar
- 2 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 3/4 c. brown sugar
- 4 c. quick oats
- 1 1/2 c. chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Place eggs, oil, melted butter, and vanilla into your mixing bowl. Mix well until nice and creamy.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Add brown sugar, quick oats, and chocolate chips.
- Stir together the wet and dry ingredients until well mixed.
- Spread onto a greased 13 x 18" sheet pan.
- Bake for 18 – 20 minutes or until set and lightly browned.
- Cool slightly before cutting into bars.
- Store in an airtight container.