Spiced Cranberry Meringue Bars

The crust is made from a cake mix in a box.  Can you believe how easy this is. You just mix the cake mix with butter and an egg, viola crust for your bars. I dollop the cake mixture in the corners of the lined dish and then start pressing it together so that is is even

If you want to put more marshmallows on you can, just remember this gets pretty sweet.  You can choose the nut you would like in your dessert, especially if someone is allergic to a certain type.  I would stay away from peanuts as they don't go with cranberries.  Choose walnuts, pecans, or almonds, you can use a few and just sprinkle or put a lot on so you can't see the layer underneath.  

You can sprinkle the coconut as well.  I used only 1/4 cup of brown sugar to add to the egg whites, to make it less sweet.  You can use up to a 1/2 cup of brown sugar.



Ingredients

White cake mix

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 egg

1 (14-15 oz)can whole berry cranberry sauce, opened

Zest from 1 small orange

1 tsp cinnamon 

1 tsp ground cloves

1/2 cup to 3/4 cup mini marshmallows 

Chopped nuts, walnuts, almonds or pecans

Bakers Flake sweetened coconut

2 egg whites

1/4 cup packed brown sugar.


Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Line a 13x9 baking dish with parchment paper.

In a bowl mix the cake mix, melted butter and whipped egg.  Whip the egg before adding to the cake mix. Press mixture in lined baking dish, make sure it is even so it will cook evenly.

Dump cranberry sauce in bowl along with orange zest and spices, mix thoroughly. Spread evenly over the bottom layer. Sprinkle the coconut over this, then chopped  nuts (you could use a mix if you like), then the marshmallows.


Whip the eggs whites into stiff peaks before adding the brown sugar. Once you have the egg whites to the desired peak, when you pull out the beaters it should leave a peak and not fall back into the whipped egg whites.  It should hold its own.  Then add the brown sugar and just mix, keeping the stiff egg whites in tact. Spread over the marshmallows.

Place in the oven and back for 30-35 minutes until top is nice and


brown.








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