Enjoy homemade Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars! This easy recipe brings the coffeehouse favorite right to your kitchen. You'll love the rich bar with orange and cranberry flavors topped with cream cheese and drizzled with white chocolate. Perfect for sharing.
Prepare a 10x15 pan by lining it with aluminum foil with 2 inches extending over each end.
Spray with non-stick spray.
Beat together the butter and sugars until light - this will take about 3 minutes.
Blend in eggs and vanilla extract.
Add the flour, baking powder, and ginger and mix well.
Fold in the cranberries, candied ginger,orange peel,and chopped white chocolate.
Do not over mix.
Spread thick batter in prepared 10x15 pan.
Bake 350 for 20-24 minutes until light brown at edges and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Let cool.
Frosting
Beatcream cheese and butter together until fluffy.
Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar and beat until frosting is a good consistency for spreading on the bars. You can add a teaspoon or so of milk if it is too thick.
Spread the frosting over the cooled bars.
Topping
Use a zester to grate the rind of an orange and sprinkle zest over the frosting on the bars.
Chop ½ cup cup of Craisins coarsely.
Sprinkle over frosted bars.
Drizzle
Pour white chocolate in a bowl set over simmering water.
Once the chocolate has completely melted add the Crisco and stir until completely combined.
If chocolate isn't thin enough add more Crisco, a teaspoon at a time, until you reach desired consistency.
Use a fork or whisk to drizzle the white chocolate diagonally across the bars.
Let the chocolate set for at least an hour.
Cut into triangles.
Notes
Storage:You can store these bars for a day or so at room temperature. For longer than that be sure to refrigerate. You can also freeze for up to 3 months.Tips:Be sure that you don't overbake these or they will be dry as sawdust.
By leaving extra foil hanging over the edges of the pan, you can easily lift the bars up and out, onto the rack to cool and cut easily.
Once you add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, don't overmix.
The batter is kind of thick, but that's okay! Just work it into the pan as best as you can.
Organic oranges are best for zest. Give the orange peel a little scratch and if it's super fragrant, the zest will be more flavorful.
Place a piece of parchment paper underneath your wire rack before drizzling the Starbucks bars with melted white chocolate. Then, you can scrape the excess white chocolate off of the parchment paper and reuse it or add it to the remaining white chocolate for later.
Cut a small hole out of the corner of a plastic bag to create a make-shift piping bag for the white chocolate drizzle.
You can also just use a spoon to drizzle the chocolate over top of the cooled bars. No matter how it looks, they'll still taste amazing.