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Cranberry Bliss Bark

Cranberry Bliss bark wedges on a plaid napkin

So, besides Hurricane Sandy taking away my power for 9 days so far, I think she took my self control too.

I have been wearing elastic pants for over a week…nary a zipper to be found.

I’ve been eating Pop Tarts for breakfast every morning…

And pizza for dinner.

And all the Halloween candy in the house … because they cancelled Halloween until Christmas this year.

You might say, “Hey Shelly…eat a banana…an apple…some carrots…”

But then you would die.  Because I would kill you with a swift karate chop to the throat.

Health food has no place in my hurricane survival plan.

Annnd my husband decided that we need to stock up on “MRE“s…like we are in Afghanistan, or on an episode of Doomsdayers…for the next time this happens.

No thank you, sir.  I refuse to accept that this will happen again.

So anyway, I am basically a fat, unhappy person right now who is living in denial.

Stay far, far away.

But to pass my time, I borrowed a neighbors kitchen who has a big, showy generator.  She can run her oven, which I frankly think is kind of rude.

But then she said I could use her oven, so it stopped being rude and started being neighborly.

Thanks.

So I decided to invent something fun…Cranberry Bliss Bark.

I LOVE those Cranberry Bliss Bars from Starbucks and even make this version at home from time to time.

So why not turn it into a buttery, toffee-like bark?

Why the heck not.

I brought my supplies over and infiltrated my neighbor’s kitchen…

This bark is really easy…you can throw it together in just a few minutes.

Line a jelly roll pan with foil and spray it with nonstick spray.  Lay your graham crackers evenly out on the foil…

Then boil your butter and brown sugar together…

After it’s boiled a few minutes remove it from the heat and pour in an entire, delicious can of sweetened condensed milk.

Sigh…

Mix that up and pour it all over your graham crackers…

And bake it for about 7 minutes.  It will get bubbly and yummy.

While it’s baking chop up some white chocolate…I used Almond Bark…

When the toffee-bark comes out of the oven sprinkle your white chocolate over top and let it sit a few minutes until it’s softened enough to spread…

Then sprinkle your Craisins on top…

Let it cool completely before you try cutting it into pieces.

Honestly I let mine sit overnight, but it should take about an hour or so…

The foil will peel off easily.

And that’s it!

Now really…just try and stop eating it.

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Cranberry Bliss Bark

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Ingredients

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  • 18 Graham Crackers
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 8 oz white chocolate or almond bark, chopped finely.
  • 1 cup Craisins

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400°
  2. Line a 15″x10″ jelly roll baking sheet with foil and spray with non-stick spray.
  3. Line the pan with graham crackers in an even layer, breaking to fit the pan if necessary.
  4. In a large saucepan melt butter and brown sugar over medium-low heat. Heat until mixture boils and then boil it for 2 minutes.
  5. Remove from heat and stir in sweetened condensed milk.
  6. Pour over graham crackers.
  7. Bake for 7-8 minutes until bubbling. Remove from oven and let it sit for 1 minute before sprinkling white chocolate evenly over top.
  8. Let white chocolate sit for 3-4 minutes until softened and then spread with a spatula or off-set spatula evenly over toffee layer.
  9. Immediately sprinkle Craisins on the white chocolate, pressing gently to stick.
  10. Let cool completely before cutting into pieces.
  11. Sprinkl

Notes

Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days

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48 comments on “Cranberry Bliss Bark”

  1. I tried to make this for christmas gifts and followed the recipe exactly but when I went to cut it after an entire day of sitting in the fridge cooling the whole bottom mixture was complete goo and didn’t harden at all! I had to throw most of it away because it wasn’t servable even though it tasted delicious!! any suggestions or tricks to how yours stays solid and servable?

    1. Sounds like maybe it didn’t boil or bake long enough? The filling on this isn’t solid like toffee, but shouldn’t be goo!

  2. can you make this with caramels instead of making your own? i have some i need to get rid of. if so how many do you think i would use? thanks!

    1. You could! It would just be a bit chewier, which isn’t a bad thing!! Let me know if you try it!

  3. No, it didn’t burn, it was just really thick. The mixture didn’t even harden in the fridge after 3 hours. Even though I scraped off the bottom, it was still perfectly sweet. I am going to make it again for a party next weekend… maybe I did something wrong the first time. Thanks for the reply!

  4. I made this yesterday, but it didn’t seem to layer like yours did. I ended up scraping off the bottom a layer of butter/sugar/milk. Any suggestions? Should I have used less of the mixture?

    1. I don’t think it matters too much that it didn’t layer like mine, but why did you have to scrape the bottom? Did it burn?

  5. I wonder if I could use cream cheese frosting instead of white chocolate? Seems like theirs has a thicker frosting? Any thoughts?

  6. Jamie | My Baking Addiction

    Ugh – still no power! I think I would be certifiably insane by now. This bark definitely looks looks blissful – I’d totally eat the whole pan with or without power.

    1. Oh, I am insane…I lost it day 3. I am now just twitching and blinking in a corner of my living room. My children are officially frightened of me.

  7. I’m so sorry you’re still without power, UGH. I’m glad you’re able to use your neighbor’s oven, though! This bark looks delicious, and I totally think it’s okay to eat the whole pan…if I was in your situation, that’s what I’d be doing!

  8. luv what you do

    I don’t see any reason to stop eating something that looks so good. I am adding this to my Holiday baking lsit for sure adn I eve have some graham crackers in the house right now!

  9. I had a good chuckle living here in 74 degrees , 2 weeks before Thanksgiving Denver, CO. I so could identify with you. I too, would karate chop anyone that question my sanity during my hurricane state of mind. I had my husband (now retired Air Force colonel-HE, who keeps MRE’s to go fly fishing with) ) read the post. I so agreed with you and the MRE’s He in turn told me that your husband was smart and just wait till a hurricane comes our way….!!!! HA! you hang on there. If I could do any thing to help you please! let me know.
    Sincerely,
    Karen

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