Holiday Cranberry Bars

Holiday Cranberry Bars might be a good recipe to expand your side dish recipe box. For $1.59 per serving, this recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 730 calories, 7g of protein, and 43g of fat. This recipe serves 14. This recipe is liked by 23 foodies and cooks. Head to the store and pick up white chocolate chips, salt, eggs, and a few other things to make it today. It is brought to you by The Baking Pan. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 25%. Similar recipes include Cranberry Orange Holiday Bars, Holiday Cranberry-Orange Pistachio Bars, and Holiday Bars.

Servings: 14

Preparation duration: 60 minutes

Cooking duration: 25 minutes

 

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Equipment:

Cooking instruction summary:

In a large mixing bowl, combine melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla; use an electric mixer or wooden spoon and beat together until mixture is smooth. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula so the mixture blends evenly. Add flour, baking powder, and salt; beat until mixed. Add white chocolate chips, cranberries, pecans and orange zest; stir until mixed.Bake: Spread the dough evenly in the jelly roll pan (dough will be stiff). Bake 25 minutes or until light golden brown. Leave cookie in pan to cool; place baking pan on a wire cooling rack to cool.In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, confectioners sugar, butter, 1 tablespoon orange zest, and vanilla. Use an electric hand mixer or wooden spoon and beat together until mixture is smooth. Spread on cooled cookie.In a small bowl, combine cranberries and 1 tablespoon orange zest. Sprinkle over frosting.In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the white chocolate chips; stir constantly until melted so chocolate does not burn. Drizzle melted chocolate over cookie.When chocolate is set, cut into 3 inch squares; cut each square in half diagonally. Tip: My favorite tool to cut bar cookies is a stainless steel dough scraper; simply push the dough scraper straight down into the cookie for straight cuts. Or use a pizza cutter or small kitchen knife to cut the cookie into bars.

 

Step by step:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla; use an electric mixer or wooden spoon and beat together until mixture is smooth. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula so the mixture blends evenly.

2. Add flour, baking powder, and salt; beat until mixed.

3. Add white chocolate chips, cranberries, pecans and orange zest; stir until mixed.

Bake

1. Spread the dough evenly in the jelly roll pan (dough will be stiff).

2. Bake 25 minutes or until light golden brown. Leave cookie in pan to cool; place baking pan on a wire cooling rack to cool.In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, confectioners sugar, butter, 1 tablespoon orange zest, and vanilla. Use an electric hand mixer or wooden spoon and beat together until mixture is smooth.

3. Spread on cooled cookie.In a small bowl, combine cranberries and 1 tablespoon orange zest. Sprinkle over frosting.In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the white chocolate chips; stir constantly until melted so chocolate does not burn.

4. Drizzle melted chocolate over cookie.When chocolate is set, cut into 3 inch squares; cut each square in half diagonally. Tip: My favorite tool to cut bar cookies is a stainless steel dough scraper; simply push the dough scraper straight down into the cookie for straight cuts. Or use a pizza cutter or small kitchen knife to cut the cookie into bars.

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