Festive Cranberry Cheese Squares
2 cup unsifted flour
1 1/2 cup oats
1/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
2 eggs
1 (27 oz.) jar ready to use mincemeat
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 (16 oz.) can whole berry cranberry sauce
Preheat oven to 350 F. In mixer bowl, beat flour, oats, 3/4 cup sugar and
butter until crumbly. Reserving 1 1/2 cup crumbs mixture, press remaining
mixture on bottom of greased 15x10" jellyroll pan. Bake 15 min. or until
lightly browned. Meanwhile, in mixer bowl, beat cheese until fluffy.
Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth; beat in eggs.
Spread over baked crust; top with mincemeat. Combine remaining 1 Tbsp
sugar and cornstarch, stir in cranberry sauce. Spoon over mincemeat. Top
with reserved crumb mixture. Bake 40 min. or until golden. Cool. Chill.
Cut into squares. Garnish as desired. Refrigerate leftovers.
Makes 16 to 20 servings.
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