Cranberry-Date Bars
Ingrediënten
Makes about 32.
- 1 12 oz. package (3 cups) cranberries
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 8 oz. package chopped pitted dates
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup water
- 1 cup margarine or butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons orange or lemon juice
- 2 cups regular or quick rolled oats
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
Instructies
- For filling, in a medium saucepan combine cranberries, dates, and water.
- Cook covered, over low heat for 10-15 minutes or until cranberries pop, stirring frequently.
- Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Set filling aside.
- In a large mixing bowl stir together flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt.
- Stir in the melted margarine or butter until well blended.
- Pat half of the oat mixture onto the bottom of a 13 x 9 x 2 baking pan.
- Bake at 350º for 8 minutes.
- Carefully spread filling over baked oat mixture.
- Sprinkle with remaining oat mixture.
- Pat gently.
- Bake for 20-22 minutes more or until golden brown.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack.
- For glaze, in a medium mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, orange or lemon juice, and ½
- teaspoon vanilla.
- Stir in enough additional juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, until of drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle glaze over cooled mixture in pan.
- Cut into bars.
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