Recipe: Tasty Cranberry Oatmeal Bars

Recipe: Tasty Cranberry Oatmeal Bars Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Cranberry Oatmeal Bars. These little bars are great to snack on, are perfect at holiday time, and would be excellent for a cookie exchange. If you have leftover dough after forming the bars, don't worry, I find that the thinner the crust, the better. Pour melted butter into a mixing bowl, and beat in the egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.

Our family is an oatmeal bar loving bunch.

Whether they're plain or with added fruit, they gobble easy oatmeal bars up for breakfast or anytime snacks.

Our latest kitchen creation is Cranberry Oatmeal Bars that are slightly sweet but have a lovely tartness thanks to the cranberries This time of year, we love cranberries for the sauce of course, but they're great for.

You can have Cranberry Oatmeal Bars using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cranberry Oatmeal Bars

1. It’s of Crust.

2. You need 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.

3. You need 1/2 cup of rolled oats.

4. Prepare 1/4 cup of brown sugar.

5. Prepare 1/8 tsp of salt.

6. It’s 1/8 tsp of baking soda.

7. Prepare 1/8 tsp of cinnamon.

8. Prepare 3 tbsp of butter - melted.

9. It’s 1 1/2 tbsp of orange juice.

10. Prepare of Filling.

11. You need 1/2 cup of dried cranberries.

12. Prepare 6 tbsp of sour cream.

13. Prepare 1/4 cup of sugar.

14. It’s 1 1/2 tbsp of all-purpose flour.

15. You need 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.

16. You need 1 of egg white - beaten.

One of my favorite things about fall is fresh cranberries.

I've made quite a few cranberry dishes on this blog.

Recently my blogging friend Carole from Garden Up Green suggested that I make a cranberry oatmeal cookie.

How to Make Cranberry Oatmeal Bars.

Cranberry Oatmeal Bars step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325 and grease a 8x8 cake pan..

2. Prepare crust by combining the first 6 ingredients, stirring with a whisk..

3. Drizzle butter and juice over mixture, stirring until moistened (mixture will be crumbly)..

4. Reserve 1/4 cup of the mixture, pouring the rest into the prepared cake pan. Spread evenly, pressing to bottom of pan to form a crust..

5. To prepare filling, combine all filling ingredients. Pour and spread evenly on to crust..

6. Sprinkle reserved oat mixture on top and bake for 30-40 minutes, until edges start to brown..

7. Cool completely in pan on wire rack..

Pour the cranberry sauce/jelly over the bottom layer when it's done.

For the top crumble, add another cup of filling.

In a large bowl mix together the oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Use your fingers to rub in the butter into the dry ingredients.

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt remaining butter; stir in the pecans and remaining brown sugar and oats.