Cranberry Shortbread Bars

This week, I convey been trying out approximately novel "goodie" recipes amongst the holidays inward mind; I similar to add together a few novel items to my criterion cookie boxes every year. Today I made approximately cranberry shortbread bars that I industrial plant life inward a vacation outcome of Fine Cooking in addition to they are definitely going to brand the "big list". The bars convey an ultra-buttery shortbread crust topped amongst cooked cranberries in addition to and thus a shortbread-type streusel topping. They are baked inward a ix x thirteen pan that is lined amongst foil for tardily removal. The bars are real sweet, buttery, tender in addition to cutting nicely...perfect for gift giving.

Wash in addition to form a 12 ounce handbag of fresh cranberries. Put them inward a heavy saucepan amongst ¼ loving cup of H2O in addition to ane loving cup of white sugar. Bring to a boil over high heat. After it comes to a boil, cut the estrus to medium high in addition to boil until the sauce is similar a thick syrup - v to 8 minutes (mine took vi minutes). Set aside to cool (it volition thicken fifty-fifty to a greater extent than equally it cools).

SHORTBREAD CRUST

21 tablespoons of butter, melted in addition to cooled to room temp.

This seems similar a lot of butter, exactly it makes an upper in addition to lower crust

¾ loving cup of white sugar

2 large egg yolks

3 cups + three tablespoons all operate flour

No postulate to exercise an electrical mixer, I did it all amongst a wooden spoon. Mix the saccharide into the melted butter in addition to whisk inward the egg yolks. Stir inward the flour to brand a real rigid dough. Remove 2 cups of this dough in addition to pat evenly into a foil lined ix x thirteen pan. Prick the dough all over amongst a fork in addition to refrigerate for thirty minutes (or lay inward freezer for vii minutes). Set the residual of the dough aside.
With the remaining dough, run a fork dorsum in addition to forth inward the dough to loosen it upward into crumbles Add ¼ loving cup of white saccharide to these crumbles in addition to piece of job the fork dorsum in addition to for a lilliputian to a greater extent than to interruption upward whatever large clumps. Do not chill these crumbles.

Bake the ix x thirteen chilled pan of dough, on the middle rack of your oven, for twenty minutes at 325. After twenty minutes, the dough volition all the same live on real pale inward color in addition to volition non convey whatever golden color on the edges. Remove it from the oven in addition to spread the cooled cranberry filling evenly over it.

Spread the loose crumbles over the cranberry filling

Bake on the TOP rack of a 350 oven for 25 minutes (mine took 32 minutes). Watch the crumbles towards the halt of the baking time. You desire to run into a lilliputian golden color on the hand of the crumbles, similar this:

Cool baked bars on a wire rack for at to the lowest degree an hr or until completely firm. You tin dismiss speed develop them inward the fridge. When the bottom of the pan is completely cool, elevator the bars out of the pan past times pulling on the flap ends of the foil. Cut into 2" bars. These volition hap at room temperature for a week.

NOTE: The butter measure of 21 tablespoons is non a typing mistake

NOTE: Bake the bars inward a metal ix x 13 pan thus they don't over bake. Line it amongst foil in addition to move out the ends of the foil a lilliputian long, thus yous tin dismiss exercise them equally handles to elevator the cooled bars out of the pan.
NOTE: Pay attending to baking temperatures. The outset crust pre-bake is on the middle rack at 325. The terminal bake is on the TOP rack at 350. The recipe says it is baked on the hand rack thus that the bottom of the crust doesn't larn also dark.