My mom requested that I make a chocolate cranberry square recipe, so I decided to give it a try today. The recipe actually came off a milk calendar we have lying around the house, but I managed to find it online as well. You can find the recipe here: http://www.dairygoodness.ca/milk/my-milk-calendar/recipes/gooey-chocolate-cranberry-squares.
It's actually a really easy recipe to make, but it includes two components. You need to make both a crust and a gooey, brownie topping for the crust. The crust is basically like a shortbread. It includes butter, flour, sugar, milk, and salt and it becomes a soft dough that you flatten into the bottom of a pan and bake for 15 minutes before adding the topping. The topping includes milk, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, butter, eggs, vanilla, and the dried cranberries, which you just have to mix together and pour over the pre-baked crust. Then the squares bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
I found I had to leave the squares in the oven longer than the recipe called for, however, simply because the squares seemed a bit too jiggly. I wondered if I left them in a bit too long though, because there wasn't any jiggle left when I removed them from the oven, as there's supposed to be, but once we cut into them we saw that they still had the moistness they're supposed to have.
They're definitely rich and similar to a brownie, except for the lovely light crust. I definitely recommend this recipe if you're craving anything sweet and chocolaty.
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