How To Make Cranberry Crumble Pie Bars
Enjoy these crumble pie bars made with a flaky spiced shortbread crust and fruity cranberry-orange filling for tarty holiday baked desserts.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Crumble Mixture:
- 3cupsall-purpose flour,all-purpose flour
- 1cupgranulated sugar,200g
- 1tspbaking powder
- ¼tspsalt
- 1tspground cinnamon
- 1cupunsalted butter,(2 sticks) cold and cubed
- 1large egg
- ¼cupmilk
- 2tsppure vanilla extract
- ⅓cupalmonds,sliced, optional
For Cranberry Filling:
- 4cupscranberries,fresh or frozen, do not thaw
- ¾cupgranulated sugar
- 1tbspcornstarch
- 2tsporange zest
- 1tbsporange juice,fresh
For Orange Icing (Optional):
- 2tbsporange juice,fresh
- 1cupconfectioners’ sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom and sides of a 9×13-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on the sides to lift the finished bars out. Set aside.
Crumble Mixture:
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Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a large bowl. Add the cubed butter and using a pastry cutter, 2 forks, or a food processor, cut in the butter until all the flour is coated and resembles pea-sized crumbles.
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Whisk the egg, milk, and vanilla together in a small bowl. Pour over the flour-butter mixture and gently mix together until the mixture resembles moist crumbly sand.
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This makes about 6 cups of the crust-crumble mixture. Set 2 cups aside. Pour the remaining into the prepared pan and flatten down with hands or a flat spatula to form an even crust. It will be a little crumbly– that’s ok. Set aside.
Cranberry Filling:
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Mix all of the cranberry filling ingredients together. Spread over the crust. Sprinkle the remaining crumble mixture all over the cranberries. Sprinkle the almonds all over top, if using.
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Bake for about 40 to 50 minutes or until the top is lightly browned and a toothpick comes out mostly clean (with a few jammy cranberry specks). Remove from the oven and allow the bars to cool completely in the pan set on a wire rack.
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After about 1 hour, stick the whole pan in the refrigerator to help speed things up.
Orange Icing:
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Whisk the icing ingredients together. Add more orange juice to thin out, if desired. Drizzle over cooled bars, then cut into squares.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 228.72kcal
- Fat: 9.13g
- Saturated Fat: 5.07g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.73g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.65g
- Carbohydrates: 35.02g
- Fiber: 1.60g
- Sugar: 20.67g
- Protein: 2.55g
- Cholesterol: 28.34mg
- Sodium: 45.49mg
- Calcium: 31.40mg
- Potassium: 60.99mg
- Iron: 0.93mg
- Vitamin A: 69.99µg
- Vitamin C: 3.64mg
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