Wheat Free Honey-Pear Crumble Bars

Total time1 hr 30 min

Prep time20 min

Cook time40 min

4.9

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These bars hit that perfect sweet spot between a rustic fruit crisp and a handheld dessert you can actually pack in a lunchbox. The filling comes together on the stovetop — ripe pears, honey, a touch of nutmeg, and a splash of apple cider vinegar — until it turns glossy and jammy, almost like a quick preserve. That filling gets sandwiched between a buttery oat-and-rice-flour crust on the bottom and a golden, clumpy crumble on top, so every bite has serious texture contrast. Rice flour and tapioca starch do the heavy lifting here in place of all-purpose flour, and they genuinely nail it — the crust holds together cleanly and the crumble bakes up crisp without any gummy or gritty aftertaste. Letting the bars cool completely before cutting is the one step you really can't rush, but the payoff is clean slices that hold their shape beautifully. Whether you're baking for someone who avoids wheat or just want a fruit bar that tastes like it came from a good bakery, this one delivers.

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Ingredients

9 servings

For the crust and crumble

1 ½ cups rolled oats
¾ cup rice flour
¼ cup tapioca starch
⅓ cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp fine sea salt
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cut into ½-inch cubes

For the pear filling

3 medium ripe pears (about 1 ½ lb), peeled, cored, and cut into ½-inch dice
3 tbsp honey
1 tbsp tapioca starch
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 9×9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two opposite sides to use as handles for lifting the bars out later.
2
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the rolled oats, rice flour, tapioca starch (the crust-and-crumble portion), granulated sugar, and fine sea salt until evenly combined. Scatter the cold butter cubes over the dry mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse, clumpy crumbs with some pea-sized pieces of butter remaining — do not work it until smooth.

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