Cranberry Apple Filled Bars

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup uncooked quick cooking oats
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup cold Land O Lakes Butter, cut into chunks
• 1 cup sweetened dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cranberry-apple juice
• 2 medium (2 1/2 cups) apples, peeled, cored, chopped
• 2 tablespoons orange marmalade
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch

1. Heat oven to 350F.
2. Combine flour, oats, brown sugar and baking soda in bowl; cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
3. Press two-thirds crust mixture evenly onto bottom of lightly greased 11x7-inch glass baking dish.
4. Bake 10-15 minutes or until puffed.
5. Combine cranberries, sugar, cranberry-apple juice and apples in 2-quart saucepan.
6. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 5-6 minutes or until mixture is thickened.
7. Stir together orange marmalade and cornstarch in bowl.
8. Gradually stir into hot fruit mixture.
9. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, 1-2 minutes or until mixture boils and is thickened.
10. Spread fruit mixture over hot, partially baked crust.
11. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
12. Bake 22-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
13. Cool completely.
14. Cut into bars.

flour, cooking oats, brown sugar, baking soda, cold, cranberries, sugar, cranberryapple juice, apples, orange marmalade, cornstarch

Taken from www.landolakes.com/recipe/397/cranberry-apple-filled-bars (may not work)