Leftover Cranberry Sauce Oat Bars
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 cup cold butter, cut into 3/4 inch pieces
1 cup leftover cranberry sauce, room temperature – any flavor
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325* F
- Grease a 9-inch square baking pan.
- Combine flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor and pulse 2 or 3 times until blended. (if you do not have a food processor, use a hand pastry blender)
- Add the butter and pulse 8-10 times until the mixture forms large, coarse crumbs the size of small peas. (Or use your hand pastry blender.)
- Remove 1 1/2 cups of the crumb mixture and set aside.
- Press remaining crumb mixture into the bottom and 1 inch up the sides of the prepared pan.
- Drop teaspoons of the cranberry sauce evenly over the crust, then spread it gently with the back of the spoon to cover the crust.
- Sprinkle reserved crumbs evenly over the jam layer.
- Bake until the top is lightly browned, 50 – 55 minutes.
- Transfer to a rack and let cool until firm, about 2 hours (or chill until firm).
- Using a sharp knife, cut into 12 squares.
Notes
- recipe from Num’s The Word