Vegan Jam Oat Bars

So I made these last night and they’re delicious. Tested them out on my vegan coworker and he really loved them.
Ingredients:
1 box - Vegan yellow cake mix (see below for tips)
2 1/2 cups - quick cooling oats (I used normal plain instant oatmeal)
3/4 cup - vegan butter/margarine
1 tablespoon - Applesauce
1 cup - Jam of preferred flavor (I used raspberry)
teaspoon or so - Lemon juice
dash - water (not needed if you have enough lemon juice)
Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven - 375F, Grease medium sized pan (I used a cookie sheet, 9x13)
  2. In large bowl, mix oats, cake mix, melted butter, apple sauce until there is no dry cake mix left (makes nice clumps)
  3. Press 1/2 of mixture evenly into pan.
  4. Mix lemon juice, jam, and sprinkle of water
  5. Spread jam mixture evenly on top of pressed oat base.
  6. Crumble the 2nd 1/2 of oat mixture over the jam (kind of line any exposed edges of jam with it, too)
  7. Bake about 20ish minutes (watch for top to begin to be lightly browned). Let cool thoroughly before cutting.

Vegan Yellow Cake mix tips:
http://www.isitvegan.com/2011/07/05/are-any-duncan-hines-cake-mixes-or-frostings-vegan/

Of course, no idea if the sugar in the cake mix went through bone char. Probbbbbably did : S