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Cookies-Bar: Oatmeal Cheesecake Cranberry Bars

Source of Recipe

Laurie


List of Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 1/4 cups quick cooking oatmeal
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup butter softened
12 oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
16 oz. can whole berry cranberry sauce
2 tsp. cornstarch


Recipe

In a large mixing bowl stir together flour, oatmeal, and brown sugar. mix like pie crust, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 1-1/2 cups of the crumbs for topping. Press remaining crumbs into a greased pan 13 x 9 x 2. Bake in oven 15 minutes at 350° F.

Mix in same bowl with mixer, cream cheese, and sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, lemon juice and vanilla. Spread over the crust in baking pan.

Stir together cranberry sauce and corn starch; carefully spoon over cream cheese layer. Sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Bake 40 minutes more or until set. cool on a wire rack, cover and chill at least 3 hours, cut into bars.

Makes 36 bars