Description
For an oatmeal cookie, which sounds innocent enough, Brown Butter Oatmeal Currant Cookie Bars are incredibly rich and decadent.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup currants (or raisins)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Whisk continuously and be careful not to let it burn. Gently boil the butter until it foams, and then turns brown and has a nutty aroma. Remove from heat, transfer to another bowl, and allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, oats, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- When brown butter is cool, whisk in brown sugar and egg.
- Pour butter mixture into dry ingredients and stir to combine.
- Mix in the currants.
- Line a 9×9 baking dish with parchment paper, leaving excess paper hanging over the edges.
- Press dough into the dish and bake for 20-22 minutes.
- Allow the cookie bars to cool completely before lifting out of the dish onto a work surface to cut into bars.
- This recipe makes nine large bars or twelve medium bars.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bar
- Calories: 316
- Sugar: 19g
- Sodium: 274mg
- Fat: 17g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5.4g
- Trans Fat: 0.6g
- Carbohydrates: 39g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Protein: 4.1g
- Cholesterol: 56mg