Oatmeal S’mores Cookie Bars

Wet Ingredients

This recipe is also dairy-free, because we’re using coconut oil and cashew butter in place of conventional butter. Then you’ll also need maple syrup, optional brown sugar (for a sweeter cookie), eggs and vanilla extract.

NOTE: You can also use plant based butter if you’d like.

S’mores Ingredients

To make these oatmeal cookie bars s’mores flavored, we’re adding in crushed graham crackers, mini marshmallows and chocolate chunks.

Baking Tips

Use room temperature ingredients – Because we’re using coconut oil in this recipe, make the rest of your ingredients are room temperature so the coconut oil doesn’t solidify.

Use parchment paper – Make sure to line the 9×9 pan with parchment paper so once the bars have cooled, you can easily lift them up and place onto a cutting board.

Under-bake this recipe – You’ll want to *slightly* under bake these cookies bars. Why? Because they set upon cooling in the pan. Once the cookie bars have cooled properly, they’ll maintain their bar shape and you’ll have soft, slightly gooey bites fill with chocolate chunks and marshmallows.

Let the bars cool completely – The bars need to rest in the pan for about 45 minutes to 1 hour before taking out and cutting.

Recipe Substitutions

Oats & Flour – It is best to use rolled oats i this recipe, but you can use gluten-free or conventional. For the flour, you can also use whole wheat white flour, whole wheat pastry flour, or half all-purpose with half whole wheat (if not gluten free).

Cashew Butter – Cashew butter keeps the flavor in these cookie bars mild and allows the other flavors to come through more, but you could also use peanut butter or almond butter. If using sunflower seed butter, just know parts of the dough will turn green due to the reaction with baking soda. It’s still safe to eat though.

Maple Syrup – You can use another liquid sweetener here, the flavor of the bars will change slightly.

Coconut Oil – You can also use melted and cooled butter (dairy-free or regular), or avocado oil.

Marshmallows – If you don’t have mini marshmallows on hand, you could chop regular sized marshmallows in 3-4 pieces.