Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Biscuit Bars

Ingredients:
125g butter, softened at room temperature
80ml peanut butter
250ml (1 cup) soft brown sugar, pressed down
125ml sunflower oil
2 eggs
15ml vanilla extract
625ml (2 1//2 cups)  oats
500ml (2 cups) flour
60ml chopped nuts (walnuts, macadamia, nibbed almonds)
60ml desicated coconut
5ml  bicarbonate of soda
5ml salt
200g dark chocolate chips

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Grease and line a 9x13 inch baking tray with baking paper.

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugar together until the sugar is all taken up. Add the oil and beat it together, before adding the eggs, one at a time and the vanilla extract. 

In a separate bowl mix together the oats, flour, chopped nuts, coconut, bicarbonate of soda and salt.

Add the dry ingredients to the butter and egg mixture and mix until the dough comes together. The dough will be quite sticky and may seem heavy, but that is fine. Mix in about 2/3 of the chocolate chips until they are homogeneously spread through the dough. Reserve the rest of the chocolate chips for the top of the biscuits.

Turn the dough into the prepared baking tray, pushing the dough into the pan and spreading it to the sides. scatter the reserved chocolate chips over the top and push them slightly into the top of dough.

Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Allow the bars to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before cutting into squares.

These bars can be kept in an air tight container for up to one week.