Eggless Cranberry Bars
January 3rd, 2009 Madhuram Posted in Bars | 
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Hope the year 2009 has started off with a lot of hope and joy for all of you! I baked these cranberry bars a couple of days ago from Joy of Baking site. I think these bars are the perfect way of starting the New Year because it’s both sweet and sour at the same time, just like our lives. I bought and tasted fresh cranberries last week, for the first time. It’s sour and mildly bitter too. I have eaten something very similar in India, but I don’t remember the name of the fruit and I’m sure that it was not red in color. Sugar has to be added to make these berries edible.
This recipe for cranberry bars has the perfect proportion of sweetness and sourness. I didn’t make any changes to the recipe or procedure and the bars came out perfectly. Only one note though, the recipe mentions 2/3 cup of sugar, which is actually 10 and 2/3 tablespoons, which is not easy to measure exactly. So I used 11 tablespoons of sugar instead.
If you want a sweet bar then this is not the recipe for you. You should check these cookie bars instead. On the other hand if you are looking for something mildly sweet and sour, these cranberry bars are perfect.
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Tags: all purpose flour, brown sugar, butter, cornstarch, cranberries, salt, sugar, Vanilla Extract
January 7th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Delicious!!! I see lot of cranberry recipes recently.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Yes, yours has come out pretty well. Shall try this out sometime..bookmarked the original one. N as per your say, shall go by the cup measure only. Tks again.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am
hi madhuram…glad you visited divinetaste. You have a lovely site here. Nice to get know you.
Cheers!
January 6th, 2009 at 6:29 am
A very Happy New year to you.
Looks really beautiful. We don’t get cranberries here, but I could substitute for them.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
These look perfectly lovely.Thanks for letting me know you are planning to try my sago/ sabudana dosa hope you all like it as much as we did…eagerly waiting for your feedback:-)
January 5th, 2009 at 11:25 am
yummy looking bars! nice pic
January 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Lovely and perfect.I too try out the recipes from joyof baking.These look very perfect.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:34 am
looks yummy madhu,
January 5th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Madhu, the bars are very tempting!Loved the shot.
THATS WONDERFUL TO BEGIN 2009 with! HAPPY 2009 to U N URS!
I too love Stephanie’s recipes, but her measures baffle me..am sometimes scared to try as her cup versus gms measure is not standard one that we use…dont want the end product to go into a bin! Hence I just drool at her creations, read her recipes n return!
Fortunately both the recipes I tried (the other one being the vegan christmas fruitcake) from the site had come out very well. I used the cup measurements only.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Love it Madhu. Looks perfect and i love mildly sweet recipes too.
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Looks perfect, bet it tasted great.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 am
Looks very nice and delicious! Regarding the sweetness, I guess shortbread are generally less sweet because whenever I have made them I have noticed that! In fact that is the reason why I like them:) Great start for 2009