Thursday, November 18, 2010

Share a Spoon - Turkey Day Desserts


It's time to Share a Spoon with Momma B at the Think Tank!

This week's theme in Thanksgiving Day desserts.

One upon a time, there was a girl who worked at Starbucks. While working at Starbucks, the girl became enamored with the seasonal Cranberry Bliss Bars. When she no longer worked at Starbucks, the girl would crave the Cranberry Bliss Bar. She searched high and low for a recipe that filled her needs until one day, the lovely interwebz answered her prayers.

Here it is, folks - the closest Cranberry Bliss Bar recipe I have ever found.
Nom nom nom...

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What you need:

Cake
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar, packed
3 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup diced dried cranberries
6 ounces white chocolate, cut into chunks

Frosting
4-ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
4 teaspoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup diced dried cranberries

Drizzled Icing
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
2 teaspoons vegetable shortening

What you do:

 
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. Make cake by beating butter and brown sugar together with an electric mixer until smooth. Add eggs, vanilla, ginger, and salt and beat well. Gradually mix in flour until smooth. Mix 3/4 cup diced dried cranberries and white chocolate into the batter by hand. Pour batter into a well-greased 9x13" baking pan. Use a spatula to spread the batter evenly across the pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until cake is light brown on the edges. Allow cake to cool.

3. Make frosting by combining softened cream cheese, 3 cups powdered sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. When the cake has cooled, use a spatula to spread frosting over the top of the cake.

4. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of diced cranberries over the frosting on the cake.

5. Whisk together 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon milk, and shortening. Drizzle icing over the cranberries in a sweeping motion or use a pastry bag with a fine tip to drizzle frosting across the top of the cake.

6. Allow cake to sit for several hours, then slice the cake lengthwise (the long way) through the middle. Slice the cake across the width three times making a total of eight rectangular slices. Slice each of those rectangles diagonally creating 16 triangular slices.

7 comments:

Losing Brownies said...

The cranberry bliss bar is my favorite! Yum!

adrienzgirl said...

I love all things cranberry. These are so yummy. At least the ones from Starbucks are. I'll take your word that these are just as good. I will try them for sure!

Thanks for Sharing! Love ya!

Kim of Mo Betta said...

OMGoodness!! These sound sooo good!! I saw a similar thing the other day, but it was cranberry, white chocolate chips and ginger in a muffin...but I bet these are awesome with the frosting...yum!

Babes Mami said...

Tasty stuff!

Anonymous said...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I must make these!!

Sandra said...

It's so pretty!

Anonymous said...

I got to go to Starbucks over the weekend and I got one of those Cranberry Bliss Bars just becuase of this post! It was pretty good. =)

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