Cranberry Bliss Bars (Alternative Recipe)

(12 servings) Printable Version

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 and 1/2 cups uncooked quick cooling oats
3/4 cups plus and additional 1 Tablespoon firmly packed brown sugar -- divided
1 cup softened butter
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 Tablespoon cornstarch
1 16-ounce can whole berry cranberry sauce

Preheat oven 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 13 x 9 baking pan.

In large bowl combine flour, oats 3/4 cup sugar and butter, mix until crumbly. Save 1 and a 1/2 cups crumb mixture for topping. Bake 15 minutes. Cool completely.

In large bowl beat cream cheese until fluffy, gradually mix in condensed milk, lemon juice, and vanilla until smooth. Pour evenly over crust.

In small bowl combine remaining sugar, cornstarch and cranberry sauce. Spoon over cream cheese mixture.

Sprinkle reserve crumb mixture over top. Bake 40 minutes, cool at room temperature, refrigerate before cutting. Store in refrigerator.

I love the baked goods at Starbucks, but it's so much cheaper to make the same thing at home.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank susan for this recipe.

Recipe number 1024. Submitted 7/2/2003.

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Overall Average Rating = 4 (out of 5)

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Recipe Rating (out of 5):

This is one of my favorites. I come back to it again and again. I would like to try raspberries or apricots sometime but these are so good I haven't experimented yet.

Comment submitted: 12/21/2010 (#11760)