Recipe - Cranberry Date Bars

12 ounce Pkg. cranberries
8 ounce Pkg. chopped pitted dates
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Allpurpose flour
2 cup Rolled oats
1 One half cup Packed brown sugar
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup Butter or margarine; melted
2 cup Sifted confectioner's sugar
One half teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoon Orange juice; (up to 3)

For filling: in a medium saucepan combine cranberries and dates. Cook,
covered over Low heat for 1015 minutes or until cranberries pop, stirring
frequently. Stir in vanilla. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, stir
together flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda and One fourth tsp. salt. Stir in
butter until well blended. Pat half of the oat mixture on the bottom ofa
9x13" pan. Bake at 350 F. for 8 minutes. Carefully spread filling over
baked oat mixture. Sprinkle remaining oat mixture atop. Pat gently. Bake
for 2022 minutes or until golden. Cool on a wire rack. For glaze in a
medium bowl stir together confectioner's sugar, vanilla and enough orange
juice to make drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cooled mixture in pan.
Cut into 32 bars. "A Cup of Christmas Tea" Cookbook , Favorite Holiday
Recipes from Stephen Ministers, Delt Presbyterian Church, Lansing,
Michigan, '97 Recipe submitted by Cindy Troshak MC formatting
bybobbi744@sojourn.com

Recipe by: "A Cup of Christmas Tea" Cookbook, Stephen Ministers

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Roberta Banghart bobbi744@sojourn.com on
Mar 20, 1998