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This post contains affiliate links. We will be compensated for purchases you make at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support!  I enjoy drinking Cranberry juice very much. Or, I should say, I am more drawn to cranberry juice blends. So, when I saw an idea on Culinary Shades for making Cranberry Juice in the Instant Pot, I was all over it, except I decided to mix up the recipe and make cranberry blends with blackberries and cherries. Here is what I did.
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This post contains affiliate links. We will be compensated for purchases you make at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support!  I originally shared this recipe back in 2020, but I couldn't resist sharing them again for Cranberry Week! I made them for an event last night and I remembered just how beautiful and delicious they are! We are celebrating Christmas by doing "blog-mas" this month, and that means sharing something awesome with you everyday this month, (except for 1 weekend). Be sure to stop by daily to find out what Christmasy thing we are sharing each day! I am so excited to share today's recipe with you because I was inspired by some limes that I needed to use up and I wanted to make them into a holiday treat. I decided that cranberries definitely say holiday and would go great with lime. Plus, red and green are Christmas colors, so this idea for Cranberry Lime Bar Cookies had to be good! I love it when I am right! Because cranberries have such a strong, tart flavor, I worried that the limes, which are also tart of course, would be over shadowed and that the cookies would be just TOO tart. But, when I bit into these delicious and beautiful bars, my fears went away! The sugar and the buttery crust did their job and these little bars are both completely delicious and beautifully elegant enough for a fancy holiday dinner.  I used fresh cranberries in my recipe. You just put them in water and let them simmer for a few minutes to soften them up. I loved hearing the skins popping as they simmered. Then, I crushed them in the food processor! The filling mixed up so easily in that thing! These bars go together in a similar way as lemon bars, with the crust at the bottom. To ramp up the lime flavor in the bar, I put half of the lime's zest into the crust. (about a tsp.)  When the Cranberry Lime Bars come out of the oven, they will be nicely set and just getting a hint of brown on them. I love the pretty red color and the bits of cranberry that you can see! Next, after they cool for a few minutes, you sprinkle powdered sugar on them like you mean it!  These bars taste great warm or cool! I cut mine into 15 largish squares. I like to eat mine with a fork so as not to get the powdered sugar all over the place. Plus, they seem more fancy that way!  I love how the cranberry lime filling turns into a clear, beautiful jelly! They are so wonderful! Trust me, your people will devour them. My husband adored them. Here is the recipe!  If you enjoy these bars, here are some other recipes you might enjoy:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  It's day 2 of Cranberry Week! Today I'm bringing you an oldie but a better than ever recipe for Cranberry Sauce that is safe for canning!
I don't know about you guys, but I grew up on Canned Cranberry Sauce, and I didn't really love it although many in my family did. I served it as an adult because it was tradition, but I still didn't like it myself. But, Madalynn became an adult and decided to make fresh Cranberry Sauce from scratch, and it is vegan I might add. It tasted to so good that I have eaten her Cranberry Sauce at Thanksgiving ever since! Thanks Maddy! I loved her recipe so much that I decided that I wanted to make a recipe of it that is safe to can so that we can eat it all year round. That is what this post is all about! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  I am dubbing this Cranberry Week! I was able to get an entire case of cranberries from my local produce wholesaler at a super good price, so I am processing and cooking and eating cranberries right and left! This is, after all, cranberry season, a major player of Thanksgiving season, so let's honor the cranberry this week and and find new ways to use it!  |
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