Icelandic Rhubarb Squares (Hjónabandssæla)

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup vegan butter or margarine
• 1½ cup rolled oats
• 1 cup all purpose flour

  *can sub with pastry flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• pinch of salt
• ½ cup rhubarb jam

Instructions

• 1 Cream together 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup margarine using an electric mixer
  until fluffy (around 1 minute on high speed).
• 2 To the creamed ingredients, add 1 ½ cup oats, 1 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder,
  1/2 tsp baking soda, and a pinch of salt. Mix on low speed to combine.
• 3 Transfer roughly two-thirds (350g) of the mixture to a square baking pan. (You
  can eyeball it; no need to be precise.) Gently press it into an even layer that
  covers the bottom of the pan.
• 4 Spread the 1/2 cup of rhubarb jam over top of the oat mixture.
• 5 Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture over to lightly cover the jam.
• 6 Bake for 40 minutes at 325 °F.
• 7 Cool fully before slicing into squares. Enjoy!!

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