These easy bars have a
cocoa-infused vanilla crumb crust topped with sweetened condensed
milk, peanut butter chips, dried cranberries and chopped walnuts.
Chocolate
Cranberry Bars
- 2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
2/3 cup cold butter, cut into pieces
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated
milk)
1 cup REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips
1 1/3 cups (6-ounce package) sweetened dried cranberries or 1
1/3 cups raisins
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- Heat oven to 350°F
(175°C).
- Stir together vanilla
wafer crumbs, cocoa and sugar in medium bowl; cut in butter until
crumbly.
- Press mixture evenly on
bottom and 1/2-inch up sides of 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Pour
sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture; sprinkle
evenly with peanut butter chips and dried cranberries. Sprinkle
nuts on top; press down firmly.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes
or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
Cover with foil; let stand several hours. Cut into bars.
Makes about 36 bars.
Recipe courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens,
and reprinted with permission of The Hershey Company. ©
The Hershey Company.