Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen Iwant to show you
how to make some Maple Cranberry Oatmeal bars, they're fantastic, and I'm going to be using
my little bit of leftover cranberry sauce, this is going to be the last recipe that I'm
able to make with my leftover cranberry sauce, but it's going to be a very good one.
I figured I'd share it with you, if you've got some leftover cranberry sauce from your
Thanksgiving feast or whatever - any holiday feast this time of year, they're pretty fabulous,
you're going to love them!
Perfect for a holiday breakfast, by the way, especially for the weekend when you've got
people staying over from the holiday!
My oven is pre-heated to 350F, so that's ready, the ingredients you'll need is some all purpose
flour, some old fashioned oats, salt and some cinnamon, this is going to be your dry ingredients,
then what I have here is some maple syrup sugar, it's basically maple syrup that's been
turned into sugar and it's fantastic.
If you don't have it you could use brown sugar or you could use regular maple syrup.
I happen to absolutely love this ingredient, it's a new find for me and I've been using
it in pretty much anything, it lends a really mild wonderful maple syrup flavor and I am
all about that.
And then you will also need some unsalted butter that's been softened at room temperature
and you'll need leftover cranberry sauce, this is not going to work with the leftover
jelly cranberry sauce from the can, so unless you have got a fresh good one, don't make
it all.
Now a 9 by 9 inch pan lined, sprayed, good to go.
So let's get started, in my bowl with lots of butter, I'm going to add my maple sugar.
I'm not adding a ton because I don't want this to be too sweet, because I want to serve
this for breakfast, I don't want to serve them really really sweet.
But I also think that they're perfectly sweetened, so if you want to add a little bit more, add
a little bit more.
I'm just going to mix these together with my handheld whisk until combined.
Adding in some vanilla, mixing that in.
I'm just going to take my spatula and just kind of add everything in, and now I'm going
to add in my dry ingredients and I am just going to probably start with my whisk and
end up folding it in with my spatula just to make things easier, so start with the whisk,
finish with the spatula and I will show you what it looks like when we are done.
That looks gorgeous, I'm going to take about half of that.
Pop that in there.
Beautiful.
And then it just works better if your hand is lightly floured so it doesn't stick, so
just keep a bowl and keep flouring your hand until you can get this all pressed in the
bottom of your pan, nice and flat.
Easy peasy.
Just going to spoon over my cranberry sauce, I'm not going to add all of the liquid because
I don't want these to get soggy, but save that liquid over top of yogurt or ice cream
or anything like that because it is so, so so good, there's not much of it, maybe a few
tablespoons left - left for me.
Perfect for one person.
Now this is a great recipe, but don't forget if you haven't made my cranberry orange muffins
with the leftover cranberry sauce from a few years ago, those are an absolute must because
they are the best cranberry orange muffins on the entire planet, and no holiday season
or Thanksgiving leftover would be complete without those in our family, so this is it!
This is the leftover cranberry sauce!
Perfect though, what a good way to end things.
Right?
Now what I'm going to do is, just to make things a little bit easier, keep some flour
on hand, I'm going to just dollop the topping on and I just kind of spread it around with
my hands, doesn't look appetizing, but trust me it's all going to cook up to be perfection.
Alright, these are all done, they look a mess but just you wait, they will be perfection
when you're done.
In the oven 350F about 40 to 45 minutes, let them cool and I will show you what they look
like when they're done.
My cranberry oatmeal bars were in the oven for 40 minutes, I took them out and they've
been cooling for about an hour or so, you want to make sure they're cooled completely,
but they smell so good that I am not waiting another second, I am going to dig in right
now!
Cut them as big or as small as you want, Idon't like things to be too big because I like to
savor something without, without you know, feeling like I'm overdoing it, so I like to
get nice little small squares, that way we can go back for seconds.
The math makes sense in my head.
Look how beautiful!
Look how gorgeous!
Look how beautiful!
They smell so good.
Mmm!
They're so flaky and buttery and delicious.
Mmm!
Not too sweet which is exactly how I like them.
I really love them a lot.
I hope you do too.
I was trying to get something out.
Too excited!
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com, get the recipe, make them.
You will love them.
I'll see you next time.
Bye!