Never waste leftover cranberry sauce again with this easy recipe! These vegan cranberry crumble oatmeal bars are so good and a perfect day after Thanksgiving snack.
Mix the cranberry sauce and orange juice until combined. It should be thick and jelly like.
Put the almond flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Mix well to combine.
Add in the apple sauce and almond butter. Using a fork, cut them into the dry ingredients until it is nice and crumbly. You don’t want to mix it to make a dough, you want it to be a crumble.
Put ⅔ of the crumble in a square baking dish. I used 8 x 8 but 9 x 9 would work too, they will just be thinner. Press the crumble down to form a firmer bottom crust.
Spread the cranberry layer over the top.
Crumble the leftover crumble over the top. Lightly press into the cranberry layer but don’t flatten. You want it to look like a crumbled topping.
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
When done, allow to cool completely before cutting or they will fall apart.
Notes
If you are using homemade cranberry sauce, make sure it isn’t too thin. If it is then don’t use the juice. I added it in for a better tasting tang, but you don’t have to have it. Also don’t use it if your sauce already has orange juice in it.
You can use a store bought cranberry sauce. Or even a jelly of some sort.
To keep this healthier and refined sugar free make sure you use a cranberry sauce that has no refined sugar.