Cranberry Bars

If you are wondering what to do with your left over cranberry sauce, or just like cranberries, here is a recipe for cranberry bars (servings 9 bars):

-  1 cup cranberry sauce (see my recipe for this in my blog post, or make your own)

-  1 cup all-purpose flour

-  1 cup rolled oats

-  1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

-  1/4 cup granulated sugar

-  3/4 teaspoon baking powder

-  1/4 teaspoon salt

-  1/2 cup butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and generously grease an 8 x 8 cooking pan.

Place all-purpose flour, rolled oats, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl and stir.  Cut butter into cubes and using a fork or a pastry cutter, cut in butter to dry ingredient mixture until there are coarse clumps.  Take 2/3 of the crumb mixture and firmly pat it down in your 8 x 8 greased pan.  Spread cranberry sauce evenly over the top.  Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture on top.  Cook in the oven for 15 minutes or until the top is lightly browned.  *I followed this receipt and make my own adjustments and ended up cooking mine for about 45 minutes until they were done.  Just thought I would mention as a precaution.  

Cool in pan, cut and serve.  Enjoy!