Mincemeat Cranberry Squares

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
• 2 eggs
• 1 (27 ounce) jar mincemeat
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f, then grease 15"x10" jelly roll pan.
• 2 in a mixer bowl, beat flour, oats, 3/4 cup brown sugar & butter until crumbly.
• 3 set aside 1 1/2 cups of this mixture, then press the remaining mixture onto bottom of prepared jelly roll pan.
• 4 bake 15 minutes or until lightly browned, then set aside.
• 5 in another bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy, then gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk, until smooth.
• 6 beat in eggs, then spread this cream cheese mixture over baked crust.
• 7 spread mincemeat evenly over cream cheese mixture.
• 8 combine cornstarch with 1 tablespoon brown sugar, then combine that with cranberry sauce until combined ~ spoon over mincemeat layer.
• 9 top the entire concoction with reserved crumb mixture, & bake 40 minutes or until golden.
• 10 cool in pan on wire rack.
• 11 chill, then cut into squares. store in refrigerator.