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Cranberry Bliss Bars -- a la Starbucks - #1
recipe from mr.breakfast

For Cake Base:

2 sticks butter - softened
1 and 1/4 cups brown sugar - packed
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup minced dried cranberries
1/4 cup Lindt or Perugina or other quality white chocolate - coarsely chopped
1/4 cup minced candied ginger

For Frosting:
4 ounce cream cheese - softened
1 and 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons butter - softened
1 teaspoon vanilla

For Garnish:
2 Tablespoons minced dried cranberries
1/3 cup white chocolate chips (e.g. Ghiradelli or Guittard) -- melted

Preheat oven to 350* and lightly grease a 9x13 pan.

Beat butter and sugar together for the cake base, and add eggs/vanilla beating until fluffy. Sift together flour, ginger, and salt and then add to the butter/sugar mixture beating well. Fold in the cranberries, chocolate and ginger. Spread thick batter in pan and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes or until light golden.

When cake is cooled, mix all frosting ingredients together and spread a thin layer over the cake. Immediately sprinkle with the minced cranberries. Then use a cake decorating bag of melted white chocolate with a tiny decorating tip (like the size used for writing on cakes) and drizzle the chocolate over the cake.

Cut this into bars immediately because the white chocolate hardens pretty fast and makes cake cutting messy.
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Easier:

STARBUCK'S CRANBERRY BLISS BARS -#2

(actual recipe from Starbucks)

16oz light cream cheese-whipped or beaten till fluffy
12oz white chocolate
Gingerbread cake & cookie mix
2T flour
1/4C hot water
Sunsweet dried, sweetened Cranberry Fruitlings

Make cookie/cake mix with the water + flour
Spread the dough thin in shallow 8x12 pan.
Bake @ 375* for 10-12 min
Chop white chocolate, place in bowl over hot water, stir till melted
Fold in whipped/beaten cream cheese
Chop cranberries into tiny pieces
Spread frosting onto cooled cake
Sprinkle cranberries onto frosted cake before frosting hardens

- Starbucks pdf