Oatmeal-cheesecake-cranberry Bars

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 12 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl stir together flour, rolled oats, and brown sugar.
• 3 cut in butter with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 4 reserve 1 1/2 cups of the crumbs.
• 5 press remaining crumbs into the bottom of a greased 13x9-inch pan.
• 6 bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
• 7 meanwhile, in a medium mixing bowl beat cream cheese and granulated sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• 8 beat in eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla.
• 9 spread cream cheese mixture over baked crust.
• 10 stir together cranberry sauce and cornstarch in a small bowl; spoon carefully over cream cheese layer.
• 11 sprinkle with reserved crumbs.
• 12 bake 40 minutes or until set.
• 13 cool in pan on a wire rack.
• 14 cover and chill at least 3 hours.
• 15 cut into bars.
• 16 makes 36.
• 17 to store cover and store bars in refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze up to 3 months.