Cranberry Bliss Bars / Starbuck's
By
Pat Duran
@kitchenChatter
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This is such a good recipe and I wanted to share it with you too, because it is only available during the winter holidays.
Now you can make a whole pan-full for the cost of one bar from Starbucks.
Goodness eaten to the last crumb! lol-Enjoy!!!
★★★★★ 5 votes5
Ingredients
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BARS:
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3/4 cbutter,softened
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1 1/4 cpacked light brown sugar
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3 largeeggs
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2 Tbspminced crystallized ginger
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2 tspvanilla extract
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1 1/2 call purpose flour
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1/2 tspbaking powder
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1/2 tspsalt
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3/4 cchopped sweetened dried cranberries
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1/2 cvanilla or white chocolate chips
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FROSTING:
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4 ozcream cheese, softened
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3 cpowdered sugar
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4 tsplemon juice
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1/4 cchopped sweetened dried cranberries
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DRIZZLE: FOR GARNISH
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1/2 cpowdered sugar
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1 Tbspmilk
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2 tspolive oil or shortening
How to Make Cranberry Bliss Bars / Starbuck's
- Preheat oven to 350^.Butter a 9x13-inch baking pan. Set aside.
- Bars:
Beat together the butter and brown sugar with electric mixer until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, then add the ginger,vanilla and salt. and beat well. - Gradually mix in the flour and baking powder until smooth. Mix the chopped cranberries and chocolate chips into the batter by hand.
Pour batter into the prepared pan. Use a spatula to spread evenly across the pan.
Bake 25-30 minutes, until the bars are lightly browned on top. Cool on wire rack. - Frosting:
Combine ingredient,except cranberries, in a mixer bowl and beat until smooth. Spread on bars when completely cooled.
Sprinkle the cranberries over top of frosting.
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Drizzle Garnish:
Whisk together ingredients and drizzle over cranberries in a back and forth motion using a squirt bottle or plastic storage bag, corner cut off.
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Cover bars and chill for 2 hours. Then cut bars length-wise down the center -then cut then across 4 times making 8 bars and cut those bars in half diagonally making 16 triangular bars.