My mom has made these Cranberry Caramel Date Bars for as long as I can remember. They’re not exactly healthy, but they are delicious. 
Cranberry Caramel Date Bars makes about 40 small bars ~ ~ ~ Stir together cranberries and 2 tablespoons sugar in a small bowl; set aside.
1 C fresh cranberries
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 1/3 C WW pastry flour, divided
½ tsp. baking soda
2 C uncooked regular oats
1/3 C sugar1/3 C firmly packed light brown sugar
1 C butter, melted
1 (10 oz.) pkg. chopped dates
¾ C chopped pecans
1 (12 oz.) jar caramel sauce
Combine 2 cups flour and next four ingredients; stir in melted butter until crumbly.
Reserve one cup of this mixture. Press remaining mixture into bottom of a lightly
greased 9×13 inch baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with
dates, pecans and cranberry mixture. Stir together caramel sauce and remaining 1/3
cup flour; spoon over cranberries. Sprinkle with reserved 1 cup flour/butter/sugar mixture. Bake 20 more minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars.
Enjoy!
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thank you for this recipe…i live way over here on the other side of your world and some X-Mas’s ago this piece of yummy was a holiday item at a local bookstore\cafe shop…it was sooo good but the store didn’t have recipe so i itemiZed the ingredients…i just needed the recipe to make sure it would come out right when i made it at home…so thank you : )
btw, i started browing your site after i stopped hyperventilating [at finding the recipe] and it is pretty awesome…you have sooo many recipes and the pictures make them all look soo tasty…(my father-in-law lives in north carolina too, in an oceanside town)
i have ‘create shortcut’ ; ) for this site and i will be ‘re’creating these delicious looking dishes…and out of all the dishes you’ve displayed, for some reason the lemon garlic string beans is begging me to have a go at them
wishing you a terrific holidaZe
Dangkulu Na Si Yu’us Ma’ase
a. jaYne
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