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  • Serves: 24 Bars

Apricot-Raisin Bars

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Category: Low Fat, Cookies

 Ingredients List

  • ----------------------------------FILLING----------------------------------
  • 1/2 c Dried apricots, diced
  • 1/4 c Raisins
  • 1/2 c Apples, peeled and grated
  • 1/2 c Reduced-sugar apricot
  • -preserves

 Directions

CRUST
1 1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c All-purpose flour
1/2 c Oat bran
2 c Rolled oats
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1 c Brown sugar
3/4 c Reduced-calorie margarine,
-melted

In a medium bowl, combine all filling ingredients. Stir well.

Make crust: In a large bowl, combine baking soda, flour, oat bran, oats,
cinnamon, and brown sugar. Stir in melted margarine. Press slightly more
than half of crust mixture in bottom of a 9- by 13-inch pan sprayed with
vegetable cooking spray.

Spread on filling. Sprinkle on remaining crust. Bake at 325 degrees for 20
minutes. Cut into bars.

Makes 24 bars

Nutritional analysis: Per 2-inch square: 151 calories, 2 grams protein, 27
grams carbohydrate, 4 grams fat (26 percent), 124 milligrams sodium.

FROM Karen Mangum's cookbook "Life's Simple Pleasures: Fine Vegetarian
Cooking for Sharing and Celebration."

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