Cranberry Bliss Bars

Cranberry Bliss Bars

These Cranberry Bliss Bars are the perfect bar for any season. The white chocolate and cranberries are a beautiful combination of flavours.

Starbucks

I admit it, I love Starbucks.

Hanging out with my girlfriends. Tweet Ups. Business meetings. Even just sitting there alone, headphones on, writing, thinking, people watching. And always a familiar face when traveling in a new city.

Now one who’s never enjoyed white chocolate, I am surprisingly smitten with their Cranberry Bliss Bars.

Having moved to a small town in the middle of nowhere I am sorely lacking my Starbucks.  After recently hitting one in Chapters after doing some Christmas shopping, I bought one of those triangles of sweet cranberry love.

Cranberry Bliss Bars

Cranberry Bliss Bars
 
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • Crust & filling:
  • ¾ cup butter:
  • 1½ cups packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ cup dried cranberries
  • 6 ounces white baking chocolate, coarsely chopped
  • Icing:
  • 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 6 ounces white baking chocolate, melted with 1 teaspoon of shortening
  • ½ cup dried cranberries, chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with non stick spray.
  3. In a medium bowl, melt butter for one minute in the microwave, stir in brown sugar, let cool to room temperature.
  4. Use an electric mixer to beat in the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, gradually add all the ingredients to the mixer bowl.
  5. Stir in the cranberries and chopped chocolate.
  6. The batter will be very thick, almost like a cookie dough.
  7. Pat the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 18-21 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool completely.
  8. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese and powdered sugar until well-blended.
  9. Gradually add half of the melted white chocolate, beat until blended.
  10. Frost the cookie base.
  11. Sprinkle with cranberries.
  12. Drizzle with remaining melted white chocolate.
  13. Cut into bars- square or triangle-shaped.

 

Cranberry Bliss Bars

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with nonstick spray.

In a medium bowl, melt butter for one minute in the microwave, stir in brown sugar, let cool to room temperature. Use an electric mixer to beat in the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, gradually add all the ingredients to the mixer bowl.

 Stir in the cranberries and chopped chocolate. The batter will be very thick, almost like a cookie dough.

bliss bar base

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pat the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 18-21 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool completely.

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese and powdered sugar until well-blended.

 Gradually add half of the melted white chocolate, beat until blended. Frost the cookie base. Sprinkle with cranberries. Drizzle with remaining melted white chocolate. Cut into bars- square or triangle-shaped

bliss bar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Published by Redawna

Garden & Food Writer/Educator/Photographer. NFT artist. Management Professional. Community Builder. Entrepreneurial spirit.

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