Can we all just agree that peanut butter makes everything better! I was in the mood to make a dessert bar and definitely wanted peanut butter involved haha.. the end result was these amazing peanut butter crumble oatmeal bars and I just about melted when I bit into one.. The crumble topping gives off a nice sweetness and I highly recommend drizzling a little melted peanut butter on top when you are ready to eat one.. Recipe makes 12 bars at 5SP each on both blue & green and 4SP on purple.
Peanut butter crumble oatmeal bars
4-5PP, 5SP blue & green, 4SP purple
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/3 cup peanut butter
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 cup oats *I used quick oats
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- FOR THE CRUMBLE TOPPING
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp peanut butter
- 1 Tbsp light butter softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and spray a 9 inch square dish with some cooking spray.
- In a bowl using an electric mixer mix together the apple sauce and 1/4 cup of brown sugar, add in the egg and mix well, then add in the peanut butter and vanilla and mix till well blended.
- Stir in the flour, oats, baking powder and soda.
- Pour batter into the baking dish and spread out evenly.
- In a small bowl mix together the crumble ingredinets, flour, brown sugar, peanut butter and butter. I find using a few knives and cutting it (like you would cold butter into flour) works well to form the crumble texture you want.
- Sprinkle on top of the batter then bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Let cool then cut into 12 equal bars.
- *Optional to melt and drizzle a little peanut butter on top, I highly recommend this and you can do it over the whole thing or just per bar when you are ready to eat one.
- These bars store well in a sealed container and after a day or two I put them in the fridge.
- *Note- You could probably substitute with PB2 in wet form although I have not tried so I can't give an honest answer to if they will turn out the same.
Notes
Personal Points- 4-5 depending on your 0PP foods Smart points- Blue & Green- 5 using WW recipe builder Smart points- Purple- 4 using WW recipe builder Points Plus- 4 using PP calculator Nutritional info per bar.. Calories 144...Fat 5g...Sat fat 0.9g...Carbs 22g...Fiber 1.6g...Sugar 7g...protein 4.3g using My Fitness Pal *Note- includes all ingredients
12 Comments
Would Swerve Brown Sugar work to save on points?
Sure, I just don’t know the point difference so you’d need to maybe build it in the App 🙂
Hi! I’m pretty new to Weight Watchers and this is one of the first recipes I found! It looks so delicious!!
Did you use normal brown sugar or the Splenda brown sugar mix?
Hi Autumn, welcome to WW 🙂 I used regular but you could substitute for the splenda and adjust the points accordingly, I hope you enjoy the bars
Curious, could i add some chopped up apples to this? I feel like it would be a lot better with some kind of fruit. Thoughts?
Sure, I don’t see why not, sounds yummy 🙂
Do you think I could make these as muffins instead? I always find it so much easier to portion out that way.
Hi Jenn, I think they should turn out ok as muffins 🙂
I made these last night and they are so yummy! Thanks again for a great recipe! By the way using Splenda brown sugar and regular brown sugar really is no difference. Really makes me angry LOL.
Awesome, I’m so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
Could protein powder be substituted for the flour in the crumble?
HI Megan, hmmm not too sure, all I can say is give it a try and see, I think it will be ok just not sure if the crumble will be the same texture