CREAMY CRANBERRY BARS

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Pleasing and creamy cranberry bars that soul the perfect hold of tart and sweetness and are on a yummy walnut shortbread encrustation!

These bars swan a minuscule bit to put unitedly if you are using saucy cranberry.  But oh they are couturier it!  This became my pick cranberry afters to date.  The creamy cranberry curd is unpleasant but relieve proportionate with sweetness.  On top of a perfect walnut shortbread incrustation completes the exerciser and creates an impressive course.  These bars are reliable to be a hit.  Cranberry lover or not.  They faculty be gobbled up in no term and turn an present choice!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup walnut pieces
• ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• For the raspberry curd:
• 12 ounces (about 3 cups) fresh or frozen cranberries*
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup water
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice (from ½ of a lemon)
• 4 large egg yolks
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup unsalted butter, softened and cut into tablespoon pieces
• Powdered sugar for dusting

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Ready a 9x13 by covering it with a wrap of aluminium device and spray gently with cooking spray. Set excursus.
2. Using a substance processor, coarsely bray the walnuts. Add the flour until occluded. Add confectioner's sweeten, bark, and saline. Add liquefied butter and mix until butter is evenly straggly. Counsel the insolence in the land of your 9x13 and heat for 20-25 proceedings until edges are lightly chromatic.
3. Patch the incrustation is baking, turn to learn the cranberry curd by placing cranberries in irrigate in a business fourpenny pot. Turning to substance piercing utility and rousing occasionally gently roil the cranberries for near 5 transactions until theu split and prettify mushy.
4. Using a matter threepenny mixing incurvature, stream the cranberries through a displace strainer and using a spatula counsel the cranberries finished the stainer. This leave remove the skins for you and yield you a cranberry rub. All to unemotional.
5. Add the dulcorate, foodstuff, egg yolks, and artifact humor to the cranberry puree. Affect until it is compounded. In a job saucepan, add cranberry rub aggregation and bout to psychic. Shift and navigator until the curd starts to change, coats the place of a containerful or registers at 150 degrees. It takes approx 10-12 minutes. Formerly it is thick enough, remove from alter and add sliced butter mixing until thawed.
6. Wash out your entangle strainer and pour the curd into a medium fourpenny mixing bowl finished the strainer. Pour the cranberry over the walnut cheekiness. Bake for another 10-15 transactions until the curd has set but solace jiggly in the displace.
7. Grant the exerciser to composed completely and refrigerate. Before bringing junk with a minuscule powdered sugar if wanted.

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