It’s the day after Canadian Thanksgiving, and I have got to say… I am STUFFED!
Speaking of things being stuffed, I regret to tell you that for Thanksgiving, I did not make a turkey. For one thing, I don’t even like turkey. For another…well.. that’s pretty much it. Why make a turkey if it will just waste precious oven space, and no one will eat it?
The only thing I like about having a turkey is the stuffing. But no matter. I made stuffing anyways. I will post the recipe soon, but, spoiler alert, it is the BEST thing about holidays at my house. Unless you’re a vegetarian. Then, I’m sorry but you’re out of luck…
But I’m talking about dessert now, so all my vegetarian friends can rejoice, because we can all enjoy this together!
Since I was making a huge Thanksgiving dinner, there was no time to make some elaborate dessert when I spent almost all of my day peeling chestnuts. (if anyone has an easy way of peeling chestnuts, PLEASE let me know!) Also, this is day 4 of me trying to go without chocolate for a week (someone should have warned me how hard this was…), so what I could make was limited.
But the result was glorious. These Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars knocked my socks, shoes and gloves off. My sister, who isn’t usually a fan of sweet things, grabbed a second bar telling me how good they were.
Who needs chocolate when you can fake a cranberry cheesecake bar?
Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars Ingredients
All you need is:
- flour
- brown & white sugar
- rolled oats
- salt
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- butter
- lemon
- dried cranberries
- plain yogurt
- vanilla extract
- egg white
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Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (or more all-purpose flour)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 6 Tbsp salted butter, melted
- 3 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Filling
- 1 1/3 cups dried cranberries
- 3/4 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon rind, grated
- 1 large egg white
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Lightly spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- For the Crust: In a medium bowl, mix together the flours, sugar, oats, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Pour in the butter and lemon juice, and mix until fully incorporated. (mixture should be crumbly)
- Reserve 1/2 cup of the oat mixture. Press the crust mixture into the prepared baking dish.
- For the Filling: In a medium bowl, mix together the filling ingredients until fully combined. Spread the mixture over the crust and sprinkle the reserved oat mixture evenly over the cranberry mixture.
- Bake the 40 minutes, or until the edges are golden. Allow to cool before cutting into squares.
Hi Cathleen , what wonderful ingredients to combine the flavors to make them so delicious , thanks for sharing 🙂 .
These cheesecake bars are so perfect for this time of the year!
I would have more than one bar of this.. 😀
Superb bars….
Hey, Cathleen! Where's the cheese? Just kidding….I've always wanted to make my own bars so this recipe is bookmarked 🙂
Happy Belated Thanksgiving
These bars sound delicious!
Looks amazing, I've never seen oats in cheesecake bars… very clever.
Delicious bars!! Love the yogurt in the filing 🙂
Happy belated thanksgiving! The bars look lovely. So full of great flavor!
Hi, thanks for visiting me, the bars look delicious. have a nice week end
These cheesecake bars look divine, Cathleen.
I hope you had a glorious Thanksgiving, Cathleen. If these bars are an example of all the goodness you shared then I can definitely understand why you were stuffed!
Thank you so much for sharing…
This sounds really delicious!
These bars look amazing and I would definitely prefer them to chocolate!!
Same 🙂
What a wonderfully delicious oatmeal bar. Healthy enough for snacking, and I won’t mind having these for dessert too. 🙂
Agree!! Thanks Anita
These look so appealing!! I love the unique combination of ingredients and I bet the house smells amazing when these are cooking. Nice touch wit the yogurt filling.
It really does. Thanks!! 🙂
I love the idea of using yogurt to make these healthier. Can’t wait to try these!!
You must give it a go 😉
Considering yhe food restrictions right now I actually have all these ingredients! I’ll be making these this week!
Yay!! Let me know how it goes!