Recipe: Tasty Cranberry Bars

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Ingredients of Cranberry Bars

1. It's 1 of 12 ounce package whole fresh or thawed frozen cranberrys.
2. You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.
3. Prepare 3/4 cup of water.
4. You need 1 box of yellow cake mix ( 18.25 ounce).
5. You need 1 1/4 cup of rolled oats.
6. It's 3/4 cup of melted butter.
7. You need 2 of eggs.
8. You need 3/4 cup of packed light brown sugar.
9. It's 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of ground ginger.
11. Prepare 1/3 cup of mini chocolate chips- optional but really good!.

If you're from Wisconsin you have to love cranberries. This is one of my favorite bar recipes and it mixes up very fast and is sooo good. Delicious cranberry bars made with fresh cranberries, rolled oats and a hint of coconut. These can easily be made gluten-free and freeze really well making them a great make-ahead cranberry dessert!

Cranberry Bars instructions

1. In a saucepan over medium heat combine the cranberrys, granulated sugar and water. Cook stirring occasionally until all of the cranberrys have popped, and the mixture has thickened to a jam like consistency, about 15 minutes, set aside to cool..
2. Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 by 13 inche baking pan with non stick spray, line it with parchment paper or foil with ends of paper extending over side of pan for easy removal, spray paper lightly with non stick spray.
3. In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, oats, brown sugar, ginger and cinnamon, add in the eggs and melted butter and combine to moisten. Set aside about 11/2 cups of the mixture for the topping..
4. Spread remaining mix in baking pan evenly, I used a small off set spatula to spread but the back of a spoon also works..
5. Spread the cooled cranberry mixture over the crust. Add chocolate chips to reserved cake/oat mixture and mix in. Pinch off pieces of mixture and evenly drop on top of cranberry layer ( it will spread out to cover when cooking).
6. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated 350 oven until top is a light golden brown. Cool in pan at least 40 minutes on a rack before removing. To remove run a knife around any places where the bar touched the pan and gently lift parchment paper. When cool cut into bars..

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