Dessert Bar Recipes for Your Next Backyard

Cranberry Crumble Bars
Ingredients: Cranberry Filling: granulated sugar, orange juice, water, fresh cranberries, grated orange peel, and ground cinnamon. Bars: brown sugar, butter or margarine, quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats, all-purpose or whole wheat flour, and salt.

Humpty Dumpty Hawaiian Bars
Ingredients: margarine, sugar, eggs, ripe banana, all-purpose flour, baking soda, can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, salt, powdered sugar, and flaked coconut.

Quarterback Blitz Bars
Ingredients: butter or margarine, graham cracker crumbs, HERSHEY'S Cocoa, sugar, sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk), HERSHEY'S MINI KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates, HEATH BITS 'O BRICKLE Toffee Bits, chopped walnuts, and MOUNDS Sweetened Coconut Flakes.

Brownie Caramel Pecan Bars
Ingredients: sugar, butter or margarine, water, Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, eggs, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, Caramel Topping, and pecan pieces.

Chewy Carmel Peanut Bars
Ingredients: unsalted butter, dark brown sugar, vanilla, large eggs, all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, granulated sugar, light corn syrup, water, heavy cream, and roasted peanuts.

Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients: butter, Graham Cracker Crumbs, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla, blueberry jam or preserves, and blueberries.

Cowboy Oatmeal Bars
Ingredients: Butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla, all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, uncooked quick-cooking oats, peanut butter chips, milk or real semi-sweet chocolate chips, and coarsely chopped walnuts.

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