Best Cranberry Oatmeal Bars Recipes

CRANBERRY NUT OATMEAL GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line an 8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper or waxed paper.
• Mix oats, cranberries, pecans, ground flax seed, chocolate chips, and wheat germ together in a bowl.
• Stir brown sugar, honey, vegetable oil, and salt together in a large microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave for 30 seconds. Stir mixture and heat in microwave again until smooth, about 30 seconds more. Stir vanilla extract and cinnamon into brown sugar mixture.
• Stir brown sugar mixture into oats mixture until evenly mixed and chocolate is melted; pour into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 30 minutes. Lift bars out of pan by pulling by the parchment paper; cool for 5 minutes before cutting into bars.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE BARS WITH OATMEAL AND CRANBERRY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Beat butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla extract; continue mixing until well blended.
• Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt to sugar mixture; mix well. Stir in oats, cranberries, and white chocolate chips. Pour into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bars comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes.
• Remove baking pan from the oven and let stand for 30 minutes. Cut into bars.

CRANBERRY-CHOCOLATE OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Whisk the eggs, egg whites, sugar substitute, applesauce, oil and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Stir in dried cranberries. , Spread into a 9-in. square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 17-20 minutes or until set. Cool on a wire rack.

OATMEAL CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 9-inch square pan with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, softened butter, water, egg and cinnamon with spoon until soft dough forms. Reserve 1/4 cup of the chopped white chocolate for topping. Stir remaining chopped white chocolate and the cranberries into dough. Spread dough in bottom of pan.
• Bake 25 to 29 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and edges are golden brown. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave reserved 1/4 cup chopped white chocolate uncovered on Medium (50%) 30 seconds. Stir; continue to microwave in 15-second increments until white chocolate can be stirred smooth. Spoon into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; partially seal bag. Cut off tiny corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe over top of bar.
• Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until melted white chocolate is set. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in airtight container.

CRANBERRY-WHITE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, and butter in a large bowl. Set 1/2 cup of the mixture aside. Press remaining mixture over the bottom of a 9x13-inch glass baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until firm, about 10 minutes.
• Pour sweetened condensed milk over the crust. Sprinkle cranberries, walnuts, chocolate chips, and orange zest over the milk. Top with the reserved oat mixture; press down lightly.
• Continue baking until lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Cool completely before cutting into 12 bars.

CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat together butter and sungars until creamy.
• Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
• Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well.
• Stir in oats, crasins and white chips; mix well.
• Put into ungreased 9x13 metal pan.
• bake 30-35 minutes.

OATMEAL CRANBERRY BREAKFAST BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the vegetable shortening, sugar, and half of the juice and mix until creamy. An electric mixer works best.
• Add the remaining ingredients except the oats mix well.
• Add the oats and mix evenly.
• Spread the mixture in a 9x13 greased glass baking dish.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until golden.
• Remove from the oven and let cool.
• Cut into 12 bars.

CRANBERRY OATMEAL CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• 2. In a large bowl, break up the cookie dough.
• 3. Add two packages of the softened cream cheese to the cookie dough.
• 4. Stir in the oats and brown sugar until crumbly.
• 5. In an ungreased, 13x9-inch pan, press the dough mixture evenly to form the crust. Note: At this point, you may have enough dough left over to fill another pan, although you may not have enough to fill another 13x9 pan; use accordingly in a different-sized pan.
• 6. Bake the dough for 15-25 minutes or until a light golden brown (how long you bake the dough will depend on how hot your oven is). Watch the dough carefully so it doesn't get too brown. DO NOT bake this dough until completely cooked.
• 7. When the dough is lightly brown, remove it from the oven and let it cool a bit.
• 8. Meanwhile, in the bowl of your stand mixer, beat the remaining package of cream cheese with the flour, granulated sugar and eggs on medium speed until smooth.
• 9. On the cooled, partially baked crust, spread the cream cheese mixture over the crust. Note: Save a little bit to mix with the cranberry sauce.
• 10. Stir the little bit of cream cheese mixture with the whole cranberry sauce, breaking it up completely.
• 11. Spoon the cranberry sauce over the cream cheese on top of the crust.
• 12. Return the crust to the oven.
• 13. Bake 23-28 minutes longer or until the edges are browned and the filling is set.
• 14. Remove the crust from the oven and allow to cool completely on a wire rack (approximately 90 minutes).
• 15. Cut into bars and store the remaining cookie-bars, covered, in the refrigerator.

RHUBARB-CRANBERRY OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º F. Lightly oil a 9 x 13 inch baking pan and set aside. Prepare Filling: In medium sized saucepan, heat 1/2 cup cranberry juice and dried cranberries just until simmering. Turn off heat and cover to keep moisture in. Let sit 15 minutes to plump cranberries. Add frozen rhubarb, sugar, tapioca, cinnamon, salt, red food coloring if using. Over med heat, cook slowly stirring occasionally until mixture starts to thicken (about 10 minutes). Remove from heat. While filling cooks, prepare crust/topping mixture: In a large bowl, work together oats, flour, brown sugar, salt and baking soda with your fingertips until brown sugar is blended well with other ingredients and there are not lumps. Drizzle oil and cranberry juice over oat mixture and continue blending with fingers until it all comes together. Reserve 1 cup of oat mixture for streusel topping. Put remaining oat mixture into prepared pan pressing with fingers to evenly cover bottom of pan. Pour filling over crust and spread evenly. Sprinkle reserved oat mixture over filling. Bake at 350º until filling is bubbly and topping is lightly browned. Let cool before cutting into bars.

OATMEAL-CRANBERRY-SOUR CREAM BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 9-inch square pan with foil, leaving 1 inch of foil extending up over sides of pan. Spray foil-lined pan with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, cinnamon, butter and egg until stiff dough forms. Reserve 1/4 of the dough. Press remaining dough in bottom of foil-lined pan. Bake 15 minutes.
• In small bowl, stir sour cream, sugar, lemon peel, vanilla and egg yolk until well blended. Stir in cranberries. Spread over crust. Stir pecans into reserved oatmeal dough; crumble over cranberry mixture.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until top is light brown. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate 2 hours. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.

HEALTHY SOAKED OATMEAL CRANBERRY BARS

Steps:

• 1. Soak flour and oats in warm water and whey or buttermilk for 12-24 hours.
• 2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 3. Mix the wet ingredients into the flour and oats mixture.
• 4. Mix the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.
• 5. Mix the two together and add the craisins.
• 6. Pour into greased 9x13 pan.
• 7. Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

CRANBERRY OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 11x7 inch baking pan.
• Pour melted butter into a mixing bowl, and beat in the egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin pie spice together in a separate mixing bowl. Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until thoroughly blended. Mix in the cranberries, pecans, and oats until evenly blended. Press mixture into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until top is dry and edges slightly pull away from the sides of the pan, 13 to 15 minutes. Cool before cutting into squares.

OATMEAL-CRANBERRY-SOUR CREAM BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 9-inch square pan with foil, leaving 1 inch of foil extending up over sides of pan. Spray foil-lined pan with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, cinnamon, butter and egg until stiff dough forms. Reserve 1/4 of the dough. Press remaining dough in bottom of foil-lined pan. Bake 15 minutes.
• In small bowl, stir sour cream, sugar, lemon peel, vanilla and egg yolk until well blended. Stir in cranberries. Spread over crust. Stir pecans into reserved oatmeal dough; crumble over cranberry mixture.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until top is light brown. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate 2 hours. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.