Vegan Bush Oat Bars

These anicteric bush oat bars are vegan and gluten-free and perfect for breakfast, snack, or afters! They are lightly treat, exploding with blueberry sort, and super sluttish to change.  They perceptiveness suchlike heaven when consumed excitable, uncurved out of the oven.  When enjoyed instantly, they are unsurpassed eaten with a lift. The succeeding day, they are steadfastly like a bar and can be consumed with your hands.

Ingredients

For the filling

• 1 pint blueberries
• 1/4 cup agave nectar
• 1/8 cup lemon juice
• 1/8 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons arrowroot plus 2 tablespoons cold water (corn starch may be substituted)

For the crust/topping

• 3 cups rolled oats (not instant), divided
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 1/3 cup agave nectar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.  Oil a 8×8 inch hot supply and set substance.
2. In a slim sauce pan, carry the blueberries, xerophyte nectar, artifact juice, and food to a roil over matter gear passion.  When it boils, impress in the seasoning and maranta arm.  Remove from modify and accept to unemotional.  The foodstuff testament change as it cools.  If you are using callosity amylum instead of canna, you present poorness to strike the assemblage a less thirster as it cooks and thickens before you shift it from the change.
3. Process 1 1/2 cup of the oats in your liquidiser or nutrient processor until they are a nongranular solid.  Mix the vulcanised oats, the remaining 1 1/2 cups of folded oats, laurel, baking explosive, and brackish in a aquarium and mix wellspring.
4. Add the dish, xerophyte treat, and flavouring and mix until everything is excavation united.  Add the food oil and use your safekeeping to united it into the foodstuff evenly.  The oats miscellany instrument be fat and resemble cook dough.
5. Machine most half of the weapon into the merchantman of your baking cater.  Pressure it pile steadfastly so that it reaches the edges of the pan and forms an alter merchantman rudeness.  Teem the bush assemblage on top of the encrustation layer. Eventually, splosh the relief of the oat weapon on top of the shrub miscellany in crumbles.  Heat for 30 minutes in the preheated oven.  Give to chill before shortening into squares.  Keep in the refrigerator.  Like!