{"id":11237,"date":"2015-11-05T05:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatrecipe.com\/blog\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:21:28","slug":"cranberry-oat-cookie-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatrecipe.com\/cranberry-oat-cookie-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts in a Jar: Fruit Filled Oat Cookie Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who doesn't need an easy cookie recipe\u00a0or quick gift idea this time of year? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Cookie exchanges, parties, potlucks, gifts for teachers, neighbors, friends , etc. etc, etc.<\/p>\n

These Cranberry Oat Cookie Bars are your answer whether you bake the cookies or just layer the dry ingredients into a jar for a sweet gift that even the baking phobic folks will appreciate.<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0really struggled to come up with a Thanksgiving (or Fall)\u00a0cookie for our monthly Fill the Cookie Jar post this month. I don't\u00a0know if my fellow bloggers had the same dilemma.\u00a0Be sure to scroll below the recipes to see what they created. Suddenly,\u00a0the vision of sugar plums danced in my head. Ok, that's Christmas and I used cranberries, not plums. But you get the picture. A jar mix cookie.<\/p>\n

I love jar mixes for gifts, both giving and receiving. They make great hostess gifts and are good for teachers and busy parents and just about anyone else you can think of. Most of them involve dumping the ingredients in\u00a0the\u00a0jar in a pot or bowl with a few other ingredients and BAM! simple\u00a0semi-homemade dinner (like the Lentil Soup<\/a> Mix<\/a>) or dessert like this one.<\/p>\n

The original recipe called for strawberry pie filling, which you could use if you prefer. Or cherry or apple or peach.\u00a0But to go along with the Thanksgiving theme I chose cranberry sauce. It made them slightly less sugary than the pie filling would have been - which was great. I made my own from the instructions on the pack of cranberries, making sure to mash the berries as it cooked so there weren't any big pieces of cranberry.<\/p>\n

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