CRANBERRY BLISS BARS -- ALA STARBUCKS

By angielaine

Ingredients

• For Cake Base:
• 2 sticks Butter, softened
• 1 1/4 Cups Brown Sugar, packed
• 3 Large Eggs
• 1 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 1/2 Cups Flour
• 1/2 Cup Dried Cranberries, coarsely chopped
• 1/4 Cup White Chocolate, coarsely chopped
• For Frosting:
• 4 oz Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
• 2 Tbsp Butter, softened
• For Garnish:
• 2 Tbsp Dried Cranberries, minced
• 1/3 cup White Chocolate, melted

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 and lightly grease a 13 x 18 inch pan or cookie sheet. 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, and chocolate. Spread thick batter in pan and bake for about 20 minutes or until light golden brown. 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 and drizzle the chocolate over the cake (or use a ziplock bag and cut the corner off). Cut this into bars immediately because the white chocolate hardens pretty fast and makes cake cutting messy.