vegan baking is a whole new world for me. i've dabbled in vegan cooking (soups, appetizers, etc.) but never baking. baking is one of those things i feel needs to have whole fat and nothing but fat!
alright so back to the raspberry fig bars. the recipe called for rolled oats, which i didn't have. so i substituted the rolled oats for good ole fashioned oats. i also ended up swapping the raspberry for strawberry. hey you use what you got, right?! the actual fig/strawberry filling turned out great! the crust......okay so maybe swapping rolled oats for old fashioned oats wasn't the best idea, but after a little research i've figured out my mistakes. using the oats that i did is perfectly fine, however they're much larger and denser so less of them is to be used so that the crust mixture comes together in a way to be slightly sticky. so i guess that was my only fault with the baking. even though the crust turned out to be not much of a crust and more of a big mess, they still tasted good. but now i know exactly what to do the next time less oats and maybe a little bit more sweetener. in the mean time, i'm left with a nice pan of semi-successful bars.
but atleast they taste good and would be awesome with some frozen yogurt!
**please note this is not a picture of the bars i made - but they look very similar!
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