Fruit Filled Breakfast Bars

Fruit Filled Breakfast bars

Gluten Free and Dairy Free

I baked these the night before so I would have a quick breakfast for my kids in the morning.  All four of my kids gave me a thumbs up on this recipe.  These were good!

Fruit Filling

3 cups chopped pitted dates

1 cup coconut milk

½  cup water

¼ cup granulated sugar

Bars

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup butter or margarine, softened

1 cup sweet rice flour

¾ oatmeal flour

1 ½ cups GF quick-cooking oats

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 Tablespoon ground flax seed, optional

Filling:

Step 1: Pulse all the fruit filling ingredients in blender until desired fruit consistency. Cook the dates, milk, water, and sugar together in a sauce pan.  Boil for 5 minutes.  Pull of stove and set aside to cool.

Step 2: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 13 X 9 pan and set aside

Crust:

Step 3: In a mixer bowl combine the brown sugar and butter and mix well.

Step 4: Add flours, GF oats, baking soda, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum.  Mix well again until crumbly.

Step 5: Place half the crumble crust in bottom of pan.  Press firmly and make sure the entire bottom of pan is covered.

Step 6: Pour cooled filling over crust.

Step 7: Crumble the rest of the crust mixture over the top of the filling. 

Step 8: Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Modified from Betty Crocker