This yummy recipe comes from my sweet friend Joli… and I’m so excited to share it with you!
What You’ll Need for the Bars:
- 1 1/2 cups packed Light Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Butter {room temperature}
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/4 cups Flour
- 1 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 1 3/4 cups White Chocolate Chips
- 1 1/2 cups Dried Cranberries, chopped
- 1 cup Toasted Chopped Pecans
- 1/4 cup Grated Orange Zest
What You’ll Need for the Frosting:
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese {room temperature}
- 1 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1/2 cup Butter {room temperature}
- 2 tsp. Vanilla
- 6 oz. White Chocolate Squares for Baking
- 1 tbsp. Grated Orange Zest
What You’ll Do to Make the Bars:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly butter 11×15 jelly roll pan or rimmed baking sheet.
- Whisk together Brown Sugar, Eggs & Vanilla in large bowl until smooth…
Whisk in the Flour, Baking Powder & Salt until well blended.
Then stir in White Chocolate Chips, Cranberries, Pecans & Orange Zest.- Spread the mixture evenly in pan {mixture may be stiff}…
Bake 20 – 22 minutes until golden brown.- Set aside on a wire rack to cool.
- Now it’s time to whip up some fluffy frosting!
What You’ll Do to Make the Frosting:
- Cream together Cream Cheese, Powdered Sugar, Butter, 1 tbsp Orange Zest & Vanilla with electric mixer at medium speed until smooth and fluffy…
Spread mixture over cooled cranberry bars.- Melt the white chocolate on the stove or in microwave, stirring until smooth.
- Drizzle melted white chocolate over the bars and let sit until chocolate is set.
- Cut bars into squares, and then diagonally into triangles.
- *Personal note: I didn’t have any problems melting the white chocolate, but it was the drizzling that was a frightening site.
- Oh how I wish Julia Child could have been there just to give me a tip… or five!
- So my advice to you ~ use a squeeze bottle with a narrow tip for drizzling. I learned that after it was a smidge too late.
- I smoothed out my scary drizzle disaster into a thin layer of white chocolate above the Cream Cheese Frosting, so only you and I will ever know…
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These look oh so yummy!!
Another good way to drizzle is to put the icing into a sandwich bag, zip closed and cut a little bit of the bottom corner. Works like a charm. Only cut a little bit otherwise the icing will come out too quickly.
Yum!! I love Cranberry Bliss Bars. Your recipe is the best that I've seen. Many leave out the orange which is crucial. Can't wait to try them.
~Lyn~
Oh My Goodness! Those look so good. I love anything with cranberries!!
I'm so glad I saw this! Cranberry Bliss Bars are delicious, and if I make them myself I'll save a ton of money. Thanks for sharing.
Oh how funny – I was TOTALLY craving hese yyesterday! They are so good! Thanks for sharing your great recipe!
Yummy!! You know, I don't mind one bit that you just spread the white chocolate over the top – sounds delicious!
everyone loved them. My mother said it was just like starbucks cranberry bars. I also used a sandwich bag to drizzle white choclate over cream chesse frosting.
I will definitely try these!
Thanks for sharing!
Oh man you would post this yummy recipe, it's so much better when i think I could never make that … LOL