This yummy recipe comes from my friend Joli up in Washington… and I’m so excited to now share it with you!
Cranberry Bliss Bars Recipe…
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!
Those do look blissful! Thanks for linking to TMTT and happy new year.
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
Yum – seriously…I love copy cat recipes. Thanks for sharing with my Tasty Tuesday readers.