I omitted the nuts and used more oats (one person these were being served to has a nut allergy) and used blackberry jam. I wanted to jazz them up a bit so I made a simple confectioner's sugar glaze with lemon juice and a little of the same jam used in the filling once they were completely cooled. So quick and easy---delicious!

I made some jam last year that the kids just did not want to eat. It had a flavor like apple butter, but was made from a combination of apples and end-of-season green tomatoes and I guess it was just asking too much to insist that we finish it before opening other jams I'd made. They pretty much stopped eating jam. Sigh... Made this recipe using the homemade green tomato jam and the whole concoction was awesome and devoured. I have two more jars of the stuff and will definitely make this again. It often makes me crazy when people don't make a recipe exactly as directed, then review it…but I made a couple of changes that may have detracted from the results - but not the flavor - and I wanted to share them. I increased the recipe to 1.5 times the original and baked it in a jelly roll pan because I wanted to use more jam : ) I probably let the butter soften way too long as the mixture was really goopy. Or, maybe it was that I did as another reviewer suggested and put all the walnuts in the top portion of the mixture? Anyway, I just used a fork to spread the mixture over the bottom of the jelly roll pan, spread the layer of jam, then dropped the remaining mixture in small spoonfuls across the top of the thing. It worked out fine. The recipe is pretty sweet for my taste, but I had absolutely no complaints from the kids or anyone else. It was so good that I served it for dessert to friends who came over for dinner. With a small scoop of vanilla ice cream it gets even better.

Excellent! love the toasty crunchiness!

I love a bar cookie recipe, because I don't have to be a slave to the oven all day. Just tried these for the first time and I think we have a winner. So easy to make and they were delicious. Here's a tip for those of you who think they are too crumbly, press the bottom layer into the pan firmly before spreading the preserves on top. I think you need to set the cookie for it not to crumble. I used apricot preserves. I'm looking forward to trying other flavors. Thanks! :)

They were okay. Nothing special, and pretty dry and crumbly. Tasty enough, but not enough to tempt me off my diet, which is saying something because I'm practically starving right now and everything looks amazing.

I hadn't made these for years! I used blueberry jam with blueberry chunks in and they are delicious. 18 minutes was almost too much. 16 minutes would probably have been better.

I made these plenty of times and they are awesome. When we get asked to parties these are asked to be made every time ! Strawberry jam is the best for sure.

I followed this recipe exactly and I don't taste what other people did that rated this 5 stars

I added half a cup of peanut butter and named them peanut butter and jelly squares-everyone loved them

I tried this recipe for the first time last weekend. I used a jar of homemade peach jam (given to us by my husband's grandma). I don't know why but as I was making it - I just didn't have high expectations. I figured most of it would go to waste since my husband isn't a big oatmeal fan. I was pleasantly surprised! My husband and I both LOVED it. After he took his first bite - he asked me to make it again - so we wouldn't run out. His only complaint is that we didn't have any vanilla ice cream to go with it. (He stopped at the store the very next day to get some). We've been reheating the bars in the microwave and then serving it with ice cream all week. My only complaint is that I've gained 10 pounds...