Chocolate Chip Nutella Oat Bars

These oat crumble bars have a hidden Nutella layer and are topped with chocolate chips to make them extra delicious.

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To make these chocolate chip Nutella oat bars, I used the same recipe as these applesauce oatmeal bars and these banana oat bars. This time, though, no fruit ! The applesauce or bananas are replaced with Nutella, and the bars are topped with chocolate chips.

This recipe for Nutella oatmeal bars is egg-free (and you'll only need to wash one bowl when you're done making them !)


To make chocolate chip Nutella oat bars, you'll have to combine the dry ingredients (flour, brown sugar, oats, baking powder and salt), before you add in softened butter and mix until it forms crumbs.
Spread a little over half the dough in a pan, press with your fingers to make a base, and bake for 15 minutes.
Take the pan out of the oven and spread some Nutella on it (I'd recommend microwaving it for about 15 seconds to make it softer and easier to spread). Add the remaining crumbs on top, the chocolate chips, and bake for another 35 minutes.
Let the chocolate chips Nutella oatmeal bars cool completely before cutting into squares.

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Applesauce Oat Bars
Banana Oat Bars
Nutella Christmas Tree Pastry


Here's the recipe for chocolate chip Nutella oat bars :

CHOCOLATE CHIP NUTELLA OAT BARS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

These oat crumble bars have a hidden Nutella layer and are topped with chocolate chips to make them extra delicious. One bowl, egg-free.

Cook time : 50 minutes
12 servings

Ingredients :
190g of flour
150g of light brown sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
140g of rolled oats
175g of butter, softened
Nutella
2 tbsp of chocolate chips

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and oats.

Add in the butter and combine (using your fingers) until it forms crumbs.

In an 8x8in (20x20cm) pan covered in baking paper, spread a little over half of the mixture, and flatten it (using the bottom of a glass or your fingers) to form the base of the Nutella bars. Bake for 15 minutes.

Take the pan out of the oven, spread Nutella (I used about 4 or 5 tablespoons) on the base, and sprinkle the rest of the mixture on top. Add the chocolate chips

Bake for 35 minutes (at 150/180°C).

Let cool completely before cutting into bars.

Let me know in the comments if you make these chocolate chip Nutella oat bars ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Banana Oat Bars

These oat crumble bars are full of banana flavor and are super easy to make with only a few ingredients !

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This banana oat bars recipe is the same as this applesauce oat bars recipe, only the applesauce has been switched for mashed bananas and banana slices. These banana oat squares are super easy to make, and they only require basic ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, oats, baking powder and salt, and bananas). This oat bar recipe is egg-free.
These oatmeal banana bars will be the perfect after-school snack for Autumn !


To make these banana oat bars, you will need to whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, oats, salt and baking powder), and then add in the softened butter. Combine using your fingers until it forms crumbs. You then have to flatten some of the mixture in a baking pan, and bake for 15 minutes.
Mash a couple of bananas, spread over the bottom of the bars, add banana slices over the mashed bananas, and sprinkle the rest of the oat crumble on top before baking for 35 minutes.
Keep these banana bars in a box for up to a week. I kept mine at room temperature.

You might also like these recipes :
Chocolate Banana Mini-Cakes
Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies
Applesauce Oat Bars


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Here's how to make banana oat bars :

BANANA OAT BARS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

These oat crumble bars are full of banana flavor and are super easy to make with only a few ingredients ! This recipe is egg-free.

Cook time : 50 minutes
16 servings

Ingredients :
190g of flour
150g of sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
150g of rolled oats
175g of butter, softened
3 bananas

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and oats.

Add in the butter and combine (using your fingers) until it forms crumbs.

In an 8x8in (20x20cm) pan covered in baking paper, spread a little over half of the mixture, and flatten it (using the bottom of a glass or your fingers) to form the base of the banana bars. Bake for 15 minutes.

Mash two of the bananas, and slice the third one.

Take the pan out of the oven, spread the mashed bananas on the base, add the banana slices and sprinkle the rest of the mixture on top.

Bake for 35 minutes (at 150/180°C).

Let cool completely before cutting into bars.

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Easy French Apple Tart

Make an easy French tart with fresh apples and applesauce.

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This easy apple crumble requires only 4 ingredients. Plus, it's got fruit, so that means it's healthy, right ?!

Once upon a time, I hated cooked fruit. As long as the fruit in the dessert wasn't actually baked with the dessert, I was okay, but things like warm apple cake or apple tart ? Blegh.
Then one day I decided to get over my fear of warm fruit because there was an apple crumble in the oven and it made the house smell wonderful. I tried it, and ever since then, I can actually tolerate cooked fruits in desserts.

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Applesauce Oat Bars

Applesauce oat bars are very easy to make. They'll be perfect as an afternoon snack or for breakfast.

Random cravings are weird. I saw the box of rolled oats in the baking cupboard and instantly wanted applesauce oatmeal squares. Having never actually made oat bars before, I went looking for a recipe and found this one that originally uses strawberry jam. I wanted applesauce though, so I used applesauce for my oat bars (but I'll have to try it with jam because yum).
These applesauce oat bars are very easy to make (and they'll be even easier to eat). They're perfect as an afternoon snack or for breakfast : they are very filling ! They only require basic ingredients and one bowl (less dishes to wash – yay !). This recipe for applesauce oat bars is also egg-free.

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Chocolate Dipped Heart Cookies

These chocolate dipped heart-shaped sablés will be perfect as a Valentine's Day treat !

I’m not even going to call this a recipe. This is more of an idea for a quick and easy Valentine’s Day treat : chocolate dipped heart-shaped sablés.

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Almond Sablés (Almond Shortbread Cookies)

These buttery sablés (French shortbread cookies) are made using ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract to take the almond flavor up a notch. Only four ingredients and no eggs required !

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I've had a bag of ground almonds in the cupboard for months now ; I received it in the Vahiné box I won last Spring (which also had the chocolate caramel chips I used for these brown butter cookies). I've been wondering what to bake with the powdered almonds ever since, and I finally got around to using them (and no, they thankfully weren't expired, ha !).

I made almond sablés ! Sablés are the French version of shortbread cookies : think roll-out sugar cookies, but more crumbly. These almond sablés only require four ingredients, and they're made without eggs ! These almond cookies are buttery and out-of-this-world delicious, believe me. I added just a couple of drops of almond extract to kick the almond flavor up a notch, but that's optional as the ground almonds already give that amazing almond taste to the sablés.

If you're making these almond shortbread cookies, here's an important piece of advice : don't overbake them ! For me, 10 minutes in a preheated oven were enough ; the almond sablés will definitely look like they aren't fully baked, but that's how you keep them soft for days. If you bake them until they look, well, baked, they'll just become rock-hard as they cool, and that's not what we want. We want soft crumbly almond cookies, not break-your-teeth-hard cookies.

Are you going to try them or do you still need convincing ? If you still need convincing, here goes : my little brother was the first one to taste them and he kept saying they were really good, so delicious, can I have more ? Haha ! Oh, and also : do you know how hard it is to look at the pictures I took of the almond sablés, craving one (or four) but knowing they're all gone ? It's torture. I just had lunch but I'm hungry now :(


Here's how to make these almond sablés (or shortbread) :

ALMOND SABLÉS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from La Mère Pierre

These buttery sablés (French shortbread cookies) are made using ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract to take the almond flavor up a notch. Only four ingredients and no eggs required !

Cook time : 10 minutes

Ingredients :
300g of flour
230g of butter, softened
100g of sugar
125g of ground almonds
Almond extract (optional)

Instructions :

Whisk together the flour and sugar. Cream the butter

Gradually mix the flour/sugar to the butter.

Add in the ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract and knead until everything is incorporated. The dough will look very crumbly but it will come together the more you mix it.

Cover the dough with cling wrap and chill in the fridge for an hour.

Preheat the oven.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface using a rolling pin (about 5mm/¼ inch thick) and cut out shapes using cookie cutters. Place the cookies on a baking paper covered baking sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes (300°F/150°C). Don’t overbake (the cookies wouldn’t stay soft as they cool) ! The edges on the cookies should barely look golden. The cookies will harden as they cool.

Let me know in the comments if you make these ground almond cookies ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Two Ingredients Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Here's how to make a fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting with only two ingredients. This frosting can even be made in the microwave !

Do you ever get a craving for chocolate frosting but don't want to wait for butter to soften, or you just can't be bothered to cook egg whites to make swiss meringue buttercream ? Well then, I've got a recipe for you !
This chocolate buttercream frosting is made using only two ingredients : chocolate, and unsalted butter. You can either make it on a double-boiler (bain-marie) or in the microwave. You just have to use the same amount (weight) of chocolate and butter, melt them and stir to combine. Once it's cooled and set, you use a hand- or stand-mixer to beat the frosting until it's all fluffy. And that's it !

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White Chocolate Truffles

White chocolate truffles are an easy no-bake treat that only requires four ingredients.

I really thought making truffles would be more difficult. It turns out truffles are simply ganache that you've let set overnight before rolling it in cocoa powder. That's it.
Making these white chocolate truffles requires no baking : you only have to melt the chocolate, butter and cream in a bain-marie, add in some icing sugar, and then wait for it to set. You'll then have to shape the truffles by rolling them between your palms, then coat them with cocoa powder or sprinkles.

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Chocolate Corn Flakes Clusters

Chocolate corn flakes clusters only require 2 ingredients. It's also a no-bake recipe !

Christmas is less than a week away ! If you need a last minute treat or food gift, then I introduce you to chocolate corn flakes clusters. They only require 2 ingredients (dark chocolate and corn flakes), and it's a no-bake recipe ! Also, as a bonus, you only need a bowl and a spoon to make them, which means no extra dishes to wash. I added some festive red, green and white non-pareil sprinkles to the top of the chocolate corn flake clusters, but you could leave them plain or use any kind of sprinkles for any kind of holiday. You can also use white or milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate ! This no bake recipe is really easy to make, so chocolate corn flakes clusters could also be an activity to do with kids this Holiday season !

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Chocolate Cake (No Eggs)

This delicious, moist chocolate cake is made without eggs.

I made this chocolate cake because I wanted cookies.
Problem was, I was out of eggs.
I did try to find a recipe for egg free cookies, but I soon realised I probably wouldn't like the result ; I'm not a fan of dry cookies. I then set my mind on finding a recipe for a chocolate cake I could bake without eggs.


I found this one, and then realised I was also out of oil. Seriously, this kind of thing only happens to me. I had butter, though, so I replaced the oil with butter and I was able to eat egg free chocolate cake.
And it was delicious. This chocolate cake is moist, and light despite it having no eggs. Add a generous dusting of icing sugar, some chocolate flakes, and you'll be in chocolate cake heaven. It would definitely pair up well with whipped cream, too.

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Mascarpone Whipped Cream Frosting

Learn how to make this fluffy mascarpone whipped cream frosting with only four ingredients !

This mascarpone whipped cream frosting is high on my favorite frostings list. Yes, I have a list of favorite frostings.

I have used this mascarpone whipped cream on cupcakes and cakes, and I love it. It's light and fluffy and delicious. It takes like whipped cream, but the addition of mascarpone makes it more stable, so the frosting holds itself a lot better than plain whipped cream. It's perfect for anything that involves fruit, and it'd be great with chocolate cake, too. And the best part about this mascarpone frosting ? The recipe doesn't involve softening butter or cooking egg whites in a bain-marie, and you'll only need four ingredients !

First, you want to stick your bowl, heavy cream and hand- or stand-mixer whisk attachments in the freezer for about 10 minutes, so everything is cold. Once the ten minutes have passed, take everything out of the freezer, add some icing sugar and vanilla extract to the heavy cream and start your mixer on low speed before switching to medium speed. You want the cream to be forming firm peaks : put the whisk attachments upside down, the whipped cream should form a peak that doesn't lose its shape. You can then add in the (room temperature !) mascarpone, and whip on medium speed until the frosting is firm. That's it ! Keep the mascarpone whipped cream in the fridge until you're ready to use it, either to frost a cake or to pipe on cupcakes.

The recipe below makes enough to fill and frost a 9 inch four layer cake.

MASCARPONE WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING
by A Cup of Sprinkles

How to make fluffy mascarpone whipped cream frosting with only four ingredients !

To fill and frost 2 9-inch cakes

Ingredients :
800mL of heavy whipping cream, cold
200g of icing sugar
1 tsp of vanilla extract
500g of mascarpone, room temperature

Instructions :

Put the hand- or stand-mixer attachements, bowl, and heavy cream in the freezer for 5 to 10 minutes.

Add the icing sugar and vanilla extract to the heavy cream, then beat on low to medium spead until stiff peaks form.

Add in the mascarpone, and beat on medium to high speed until well incorporated.

Keep the frosting in the fridge until ready to use.

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Millionaire's Shortbread

A millionaire's shortbread is a biscuit base covered in chewy caramel and topped with melted milk chocolate. It's also known as homemade Twix bars !

See, I think this is called Millionaire's Shortbread because a small bite of this thing has about a million calories. I could have eaten the whole plate and then I'd have gained six pounds. Millionaire's Shortbread is that delicious but also very not healthy (I mean, hello, biscuit base + caramel center + two types of chocolate to top it all off = me not looking like a supermodel on the beach this summer. Heh, who cares.)

Also, fun fact : Millionaire's Shortbread tastes like Twix bars ! So now you'll know how to make them. I suggest you make a batch and impress everyone, tell them you spent a reaaally long time laboring over "homemade Twix bars" when in reality it's super easy and relatively quick to make ;)

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Homemade White Chocolate Spread

This quick and easy homemade white chocolate spread only requires three ingredients, and it can be made in the microwave !

Lire la recette de la pâte à tartiner au chocolat blanc

First published June 2nd, 2017. Edited June 29th, 2019.

Homemade white chocolate spread. Three ingredients. Microwave. Do I really need to say more ?

This white chocolate spread is very easy to make, only requires one bowl, 3 simple ingredients, and a couple of minutes in the microwave.


How to make white chocolate spread :

Break the white chocolate into small pieces and put in a microwave safe bowl with the heavy cream.

Microwave in 30 seconds intervals, stirring in between, until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.

Add in the sweetened condensed milk, stir until smooth. Transfer to a glass jar and keep in the fridge.

Tada ! You now have white chocolate spread you can use on bread, brioche, pancakes, or just eat straight out of the jar.

Oh, one more thing : you might want to double the recipe for this white chocolate spread, just in case half a jar disappears mysteriously. If you know what I mean 😜



Here is the recipe for homemade white chocolate spread :

HOMEMADE WHITE CHOCOLATE SPREAD
by A Cup of Sprinkles
Adapted from Les 30 Recettes Cultes, Lait Concentré Sucré

Quick and easy homemade white chocolate spread with only 3 ingredients

Ingredients :
100g of good quality white chocolate
15ml (1 tbsp) of heavy cream
100ml (1/4 cup + 3 tbsp) of sweetened condensed milk

Instructions :

Break the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, and pour the heavy cream on top. Microwave in 30 seconds intervals, strirring in between, until the chocolate has completely melted.

Add in the condensed milk, and stir until the mixture is smooth.

Pour in a jar, and let cool in the fridge.

Keep in the fridge for up to a week.

Original pictures :

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