Healthy Pumpkin Dark Chocolate Oat Bars
This is an easy and delicious fall dessert but since it’s also packed with superfoods, it could make a great breakfast too!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup rolled oats
- ¾ cup oat flour
- ½ cup (77g) KAMUT® White Flour (or 1/2 cup + 2 TBSP all purpose flour)
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 8x8” baking dish with parchment paper.
- Melt butter and set aside to cool. Chop dark chocolate and set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients including flour, oat flour, oats, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- Combine egg, pumpkin and vanilla in another medium mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Mix melted butter and sugar together in a small mixing bowl. Add 1 cup to the dry ingredients and mix until combined then press into the bottom of the baking dish.
- Add the rest of the butter-sugar mixture to the pumpkin mixture, stir in the dark chocolate and then spread on top of the flour mixture in the baking dish.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until set and edges darken. Transfer dish to a wire rack to cool completely before cutting.