You will definitely want to save room for this yummy 3 layer dessert after Thanksgiving dinner.
Recipe Creator: Move & Munch
Yields: About 12 bars
Prep Time: 45-50 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
Crust:
- 1 1/2 cup Quick Oats (plain)
- 1 1/2 cup Oat Flour (to make oat flour just blend whole oats in a blender or food processor until you get flour consistency)
- 1/2 cup Dairy free butter
- 6 tbsp Ice water
- 1 Flax egg (1 tbsp ground flax seeds, 2 tbsp water. Let sit for 5 minutes)
Filling:
- 2 cups Sweet Potato flesh (for me it took 3 sweet potatoes to make 2 cups so it depends on the size)
- 1/4 cup Maple Syrup
- 1 tbsp Pumpkin Spice (If you don’t have Pumpkin Spice use ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and all spice, 1 tsp each)
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup dairy free Butter
- 1 quarter of an orange, squeezed
- 1 Flax egg (1 tbsp ground flax seeds, 2 tbsp water. Let sit for 5 minutes)
- 1/4 cup Almond milk
- 3/4 cup Brown sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
Topping:
- 1 cup Walnuts
- 1 cup Pecans
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 cup Melted butter
- 1/2 cup Whole Wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Directions:
- Rinse off sweet potatoes with cold water, pat dry with a paper towel then poke holes in them with a fork. Bake sweet potatoes in the oven on 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45-50 minutes. (Depending on how big or small your sweet potatoes are bake time will vary. ) Cook until soft and you can poke with a fork.
- Combine crust ingredients then grease a 9×9 or 10×10 square cookware/ corning ware dish and line the bottom of the cookware with the dough. Make sure it covers the whole bottom of the dish. (If you don’t have a square dish just use something that is deep enough that you can fit all 3 layers, if not you can use a flatter dish, the bars just won’t come out as thick.)
- Bake JUST the pie crust in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Scoop out sweet potato flesh once it has cooled a bit and combine with the rest of the filling ingredients, pour on top of crust. Combine topping ingredients and layer on top of filling.
- Bake on 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30-45 minutes or until the nut topping starts to brown.