Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars
These delicious cookie bars featuring a cranberry and cream cheese filling, with a sweet oatmeal streusel topping. Great served cold, or warm with a scoop of ice cream.
Servings: 16 servings
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups Quaker Old Fashioned Oats
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
- 1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 16 ounce can whole berry cranberry sauce
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Optional toppings
- Vanilla ice cream
- Caramel sauce
- Chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
- With an electric mixer, beat flour, oats, brown sugar, 1/4 cup white sugar, cinnamon, salt and butter until crumbly. Set aside 1 1/2 cups of the oat mixture.
- Press the remaining mixture evenly on the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Bake 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
- In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until fluffy.
- Add the condensed milk and stir until smooth. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over baked crust.
- In a small bowl, combine cranberry sauce, cornstarch and remaining 1 tablespoon sugar. Spoon over cream cheese layer, then top with reserved oat mixture.
- Bake 40-45 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve warm with ice cream, caramel sauce and chopped nuts, or cool completely and cut into bars. Refrrigerate leftovers.