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Cranberry Oatmeal Bar Cookies
"I always make this with cranberries but it could be made with almost any dried fruit. I adapted this recipe from a recipe in a mystery book by Joanne Fluke. This recipe can be doubled to make a 9 x 13 inch pan of cookies."
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- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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16-25 cookies
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup melted butter (1stick)
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup white sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup flour
- 3⁄4 cup dried sweetened cranberries (or other chopped dried fruit)
- 3⁄4 cup rolled oats (uncooked oatmeal)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, rack in the middle position.
- Melt butter in a large microwave safe bowl.
- Add both sugars and let cool a bit.
- Add eggs, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla.
- Add flour and mix.
- Add the cranberries and oats and mix everything up. The dough will be quite stiff.
- With a spatula spread dough evenly into a greased 8x8 baking pan.
- Bake at 350 for 25– 30 minutes.
- Cut into bars when cool.
- These freeze well if you roll them in foil and put them in a freezer bag.
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Reviews
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Delicious bars. I make them in a square muffin pan using 1/2 cup applesauce for half the butter, dried apricots, raisins, walnuts and my favorite part frozen FRESH chopped cranberries. I double the recipe and it makes 24 bars. They are even better after freezing. -
Really nice bar recipe. I thought they came out a little too sweet. Next time I'll cut the sugar in half. Loved the texture. Thanks for posting. -
These were really good. I thought they were a little on the sweet side even though I reduced the white sugar by half. The next time I may leave it out altogether.<br/><br/>I also accidently doubled the spices. It didn't hurt them at all. And since I was out of nutmeg, I used allspice instead. I replaced 1/4 cup of the cranberries with chopped walnuts but, in the future, I'll just add 1/2 cup of nuts along with the full amount of cranberries. I can also see using dried cherries and almonds. Or dried apples and pecans.<br/><br/>I used a metal pan (8x8) and the baking time was perfect. I lined the pan with parchment paper so I could lift them out before cutting. I plan on baking up a pan of these next week and mailing them off to my niece at college. They look like they'll travel real well. Thanks for posting your recipe, Sandyg61. -
Great recipe! Easy, tasty, made it yesterday and it's already almost gone. Didn't have any cranberries and used raisins instead. Furthermore I left out the nutmeg (not too fond of nutmeg) and added 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger. The baking time was right on spot, the bars are chewy and full of flavour. certainly a keeper.<br/>Thanks for posting.
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I would give this 10 stars due to the reaction of my family. They all said, Wow! I needed a bar recipe for a bake sale and ended up making 3 batches (doubled in a 9 x 13 pan) because they ate too many of the first batch. I tried one double recipe as is/ tried the next with 3/4 cup brown and 3/4 cup white sugar. Both were GREAT. Would say it's a matter of preference. The bake sale people didn't want nuts in anything, but I want to try this with nuts next time. This is a keeper. Thank you. PS - I kept the same baking time for the double recipe and it wass fine.
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I only used one egg per the ingredient list, even though the directions said eggs. I'm guessing the ingredient list one was a typo... -
Good basic recipe, easy to make! I made a few adjustments since we don't use sugar. I used a half a cup of raw honey instead of the sugars, whole wheat flour instead of white, added a 1/4 cup of ground flax seed meal and cut the butter in half and added a 1/4 cup of organic applesauce. They baked well, we live at 8500 ft elevation so baking can be a trial and error kinda thing but these turned out delish!
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These were really good. I thought they were a little on the sweet side even though I reduced the white sugar by half. The next time I may leave it out altogether.<br/><br/>I also accidently doubled the spices. It didn't hurt them at all. And since I was out of nutmeg, I used allspice instead. I replaced 1/4 cup of the cranberries with chopped walnuts but, in the future, I'll just add 1/2 cup of nuts along with the full amount of cranberries. I can also see using dried cherries and almonds. Or dried apples and pecans.<br/><br/>I used a metal pan (8x8) and the baking time was perfect. I lined the pan with parchment paper so I could lift them out before cutting. I plan on baking up a pan of these next week and mailing them off to my niece at college. They look like they'll travel real well. Thanks for posting your recipe, Sandyg61.
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Great recipe! Easy, tasty, made it yesterday and it's already almost gone. Didn't have any cranberries and used raisins instead. Furthermore I left out the nutmeg (not too fond of nutmeg) and added 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger. The baking time was right on spot, the bars are chewy and full of flavour. certainly a keeper.<br/>Thanks for posting.
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