Cranberry Pie Bars

Don't have a hankering for pie? Well have all the glory that is PIE in bar form with these cranberry custard crumble bars. Start with the crust, like Ol' Grandma Pilgram always said. Start off by blending/obliterating a package of graham crackers and about half of a bag of nilla wafers untill that a mere crumbs. Poor the minced cardbord pieces into a bowl and add two sticks of butter. Mash until well-mixed and cover the bottom of any favorite cooking pan, but it must be rectangle or your bars won't pass the state Bar Exam. 

Here is where we messed up. We forgot to bake the crust by itself. If you bake it before adding the fillings, it will be easier to pick up the bars one by one. But we didn't, and it still turned out great! So bypassing the crust cooking, we moved along to the filling. Sewps easy! Un can of sweetened-condensed malk and Un 8 oz. glob of cream chee. Mix thouse twostar-crossed lovers together and you have one hell of a filling.

Then you want to pour the filling into the cooking pan, and spread it evenly. 

Really, the only thing that makes this a "cranberry pie" is the fact that we had a year supply of craisins. You could theoretically put anything ontop of this filling/crust. I'm talking lemon custard, blueberries, bananas, chocolate chips. You name it! Butt, we had an ungodly amount of craisins. We made a simple syrup (1 cup water, 1 cup sugar) heat in a saucepan until sugar is dissolved. We then added our craisins to our vigin meth and tossed them around until they were eventhly coated.

Even disperse the candied craisins on the filling. Preferably use a ton of the topping so it makes a nice thick layer. 

Now for the crumble! Basically it's the same as the crust (butter, gram crackers, and nillawaffers) but not at finely blended as the crust. We also added some brown singer to give it more flavor. 

And finally for the very top, we added water to some powdered sugar and drizzled it on the top to make it all fancy and whatnot. 

It might not be the cleanest dessert to enjoy, but it was still mighty good.