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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:
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  Way back in 2016, I shared a favorite cookie recipe that was a favorite part of my childhood. They are called Fudge Mounds. As you know I've been experimenting with using honey in place of refined sugars and since my non-sugar eating grandson was going to come and visit me, I thought I would try to change this recipe for him to enjoy. I just have to say, It came out great! I may prefer it to the original recipe! I sometimes struggled to keep the original recipe moist enough, but the honey in the sugar-free recipe helps to moisten them up and the flavor is fantastic!
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  My daughter from another mother, Charly, is very good at giving her son a very healthy diet. She doesn't give him refined sugars. So, when he comes to visit me, I try to find snacks to give him that fit into that diet.
It is acceptable to give him honey! So, today I came up with a recipe for these Honey Oatmeal Raisin Cookies that really hit the spot when you want a sweet, comforting snack. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support.  Mixes in a jar are great gifts during the holidays and I've shared a number of recipes for them lately, which I will list below. I got to thinking about all of the recipes and realized that my SIL, who eats gluten-free, wouldn't be able to enjoy any of those recipes. So, I decided to come up with a way to put his favorite gluten-free treat into a jar so that he and people like him can enjoy a special edible gift just like everyone else!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to fifteen! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! 
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