By Holly Clegg –
With the hustle bustle of the holiday season, bar cookies are the ideal solutions for holiday baking. Instead of preparing numerous cookie sheets and waiting for precious oven time, a 13x9x2-inch pan produces forty-eight bar cookies in one step baking. Festive Holiday Bars from my new book, Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets To Sizzle At Any Age, are a quick bar cookie for this time of year with dried cranberries, crunchy pecans, sweet white chocolate chips over an easy gingersnap crust. These bar cookies may be made ahead of time and freeze well for efficient holiday baking. However, a holiday hint is to make several pans, as they are our personal favorites year round.
Holiday Bars from Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets To Sizzle At Any Age
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Holiday ingredients create an easy festive bar cookie.
48 bars
- 1 1/2 cups gingersnap crumbs
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/3 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 2/3 cup of (14-ounce) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk
1. Preheat oven 350° F. Coat 13x9x2-inch pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In prepared pan, mix gingersnaps, butter, and vanilla; press into pan.
3. Sprinkle cranberries, white chocolate chips, and pecans evenly over gingersnap crust. Drizzle sweetened condensed milk over top. Bake 15-20 minutes or until bubbly and light brown.
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories 57 Calories from fat 42% Fat 3g Saturated Fat 1g Cholesterol 4mg Sodium 34mg Carbohydrate 8g Dietary Fiber 0g Sugars 6g Protein 1g Dietary Exchanges: 1/2 other carbohydrate, 1/2 fat
Holly Clegg, author of best-selling trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series, including the women’s lifestyle cookbook, Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets to Sizzle at Any Age, and also the specialized trim&TERRIFIC® Diabetic Cooking and Eating Well Through Cancer. With 1 million copies sold, Holly has promoted her healthy lifestyle recipes on Fox & Friends, NBC Weekend Today, and The 700 Club. Known as the healthy “Queen of Quick,” she understands the demands of the busy person and with her user friendly, pantry friendly, and time friendly cookbooks. For more information, visit www.hollyclegg.com or http://thehealthycookingblog.com