Chocolate Oatmeal Bars

Toast oats in the butter (reserving a little butter for the baking pan) in a skillet for about 3 minutes over medium heat. Remove from heat and let cool. Whisk the egg with sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and cinnamon until fluffy and stir in peanut butter, flour, toasted oats and peanuts.

Grease a (18 x 18 cm/approximately 7 x 7 inches) with the remaining butter. Add the dough and flatten smooth.

Bake on middle rack in a preheated oven 200°C (approximately 400°F) until golden brown, about 12 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.

Then top with maple syrup and cut about 3 cm (approximately 1-inch) wide strips, then cut in the other direction into 5 rows across.