Ahhhh I was reading your November challenge post and I must ask if you would be willing to share the cranberry balsamic cookie bar recipe and/or the leek butter because they both sound so good!!
I’m always happy to share recipes. Any time you want one just ask.
Leek Butter:
Fine chop a pile of leek stems (about 3 cups worth) and rinse them to remove all the sandy dirt. Pat dry then dump them in a sauce pan with 1-2 Tbsp butter. Sauté until dark golden brown. (You don’t need to stir constantly, you can kind of ignore it for 10min while you make something else.)
Once the leeks are all cooked up add a full cup of butter. Melt it all together to let the flavor mix, then strain it into a serving dish (I used a large ramekin). Take a Tbsp of cooked leek and stir it in, and reserve another Tbsp to put on top as garnish once it’s re-solidified. (Save the rest of the cooked leeks for soup or stock.)
You’ll need to stir the leek infused butter a few times while it settles to prevent separation. Don’t just stick it in the fridge right away to harden.
I used Miyoko’s vegan butter cuz I was making it for a vegan friend. The flavor is fantastic but you can also use normal butter. Don’t use margarine, that’s a sin. This leek butter tastes divine. I would feed it to Jesus if he came to dinner. Got rave reviews from vegan and non-vegan friends alike at Friendsgiving.
Now for the
Cranberry Balsamic Cookie Bars:
I got the cranberry balsamic sauce recipe off tiktok from Username “Cook Fast, Eat Well”
Recipe -
1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup salt
Cook all this together on high heat in a pot for 10min or so until it gets thick. (Once it starts boiling the cranberry skins pop like popcorn and that’s fun to listen to. If you’re impatient like me you can use a potato masher to speed up the process and make the sauce smoother.)
Cool for 5 min before adding:
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1/4 tsp black pepper
Zest from 1 orange
Stir together and cool before use. You can leave this in a sealed container in the fridge for a week if need be.
Recipe creator puts it on top of cream cheese as an appetizer dip, but I turned it into cookies using a family recipe my grandma made. Gma would use a 21 oz. can of pre-made cherry pie filling for these bars (and that’s dope, I recommend it) but here I substituted the cranberry balsamic sauce. (You can use any pie filling on this cookie base. I’ve done blueberry bars with a few drops of lavender extract mixed in and lemon zest in the dough, or peach pie with pecans and cinnamon. All variations I’ve tried are boss.) I used almonds in the cranberry bars cuz that’s what I had but walnuts would taste good too.
Cherry Pie Bars:
1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup nuts (almonds, pecans, or walnuts)
1 can cherry pie filling (sub cranberry)
In large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar, then add vanilla and eggs until smooth. Mix in flour, then nuts.
In a 9”x13” pan, spread 3/4 of the dough flat, pour the whole can of pie filling over the top, then take 1” pinches of the remaining dough and drop them all over like little floating islands.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30min.
Dust with powdered sugar while still hot so it melts into the pie filling and stays white on the dough islands. It’s pretty. Cut into bars and enjoy!
Hope you enjoy these recipes! Feel free to share them with anyone you want, and make any variation you please. These cookie bars are great for whatever fruit is seasonal, or that stray can of pie filling you found while cleaning out the cupboards.
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