Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Strawberry Oatmeal Bars

These Chocolate Strawberry Oatmeal Bars have an oatmeal cookie crust and crumble, filled with fresh strawberries and dark chocolate chunks. They are an irresistibly delicious treat! These oatmeal bars are gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and vegan.

Here in San Diego (and hopefully in most of the country by now!), we’re well into Spring. The sun shines brightly all day long, leaving the sky illuminated with the most beautiful sunsets, the final light trickling off around 8 pm. My plants are loving it, with new growth sprouting all over the place and making everything feel more alive.

The farmer’s markets are showing all signs of spring too – beautiful flowers in every color of the rainbow, leafy greens galore, with bunches of asparagus lining the booths. My fave part though? You guessed it – the STRAWBERRIES.

They’re juicy and vibrant, with a bright red color. They tend to be smaller than grocery store strawberries, and so much sweeter. Their smaller size packs in all of the flavor, and when I’m not eating them plain, they’re begging to be incorporated into baked goods.

Since strawberries and dark chocolate are a natural pair, the choice to put them together came easily for these chocolate strawberry oatmeal bars. They turned out just as deliciously as I imagined they would. It’s hard to go wrong with chocolate and strawberries!

Making Chocolate Strawberry Bars

They’re easy to make too, since the crust and crumble are one in the same! No need to make two doughs here because the crust does double duty. A little more than half of the crumble mixture is pressed into the pan and baked.

Once you’ve baked it, put the dark chocolate chunks and strawberries on top, and sprinkle with the remaining crumble mixture. Bake until golden brown and the strawberries are soft and jammy.

The hardest part is simply waiting for them to cool! I put mine in the fridge to put me out of my waiting misery and stop me from picking at the crumble topping (it’s a bad, delicious habit). Once the bars are nice and chilled, they’re way easier to cut…and to eat!

The oatmeal crust and crumble provide the perfect amount of texture, complemented by the freshness of the bright and sweet strawberries and the richness of the dark chocolate. You are going to want to give these Strawberry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Bars a try while strawberries are so. dang. good. Enjoy!!

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