A delicious no-bake cookie bar, developed after the Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars. These low carb and keto cookies are perfect for the holiday season!
The Perfect Holiday Keto Cookies
We are entering such a fun food season — when coffee shops and restaurants will have all sorts of special treats to tempt us.
Stay ahead of the curve by remaking your own versions using healthier low glycemic ingredients. These Starbucks Copycat Cranberry Bliss Bars are not only just as festive as the original, they are sugar free, keto friendly, and made with ingredients that will nourish and energize you, rather than leave you with a sugar crash.
You’ll love these holiday cookies because:
- They are no-bake! Simply process our Vanilla Bean Cake Mix with cream cheese, unsweetened cranberries, cinnamon, and ginger, and press it into a pan to set into a delicious cookie base!
- Did someone say WHITE CHOCOLATE? Just buy a sugar free version. Or, get wild and crazy and make these with dark chocolate, if that’s more your jam.
- Keto Cranberry Bliss Bars are a beautiful and festive treat, perfect for adorning your cookie platters this season.
How to Make Keto Cranberry Bliss Bars
Step 1: Into a food processor bowl, add the Vanilla Bean Cake Mix, along with cream cheese, cinnamon and ginger. Process until fully combined, but not long enough to melt the cream cheese.
Step 2: Add sugar free cranberries into the processor bowl, and process until they are incorporated into the mixture.
Step 3: Press the cookie dough into an 8×8 baking dish. Smooth out the top, and then freeze for about an hour to set the base of these bars.
Step 4: Melt white chocolate with some coconut oil for the decorative top.
Step 5: Add a layer of white chocolate, and then sprinkle on some chopped cranberries. If you’d like these to look like the Starbucks bar, reserve half of the white chocolate to drizzle over the top.
Step 6: Cut these bars as soon as the white chocolate sets. The sooner you can cut them after it starts to solidify, the better bars you’ll have. To cut these nicely, you’ll need the base to be almost frozen, but the white chocolate to still be slightly soft. Once the bars are cut, you can refrigerate them for up to a week or freeze them for up to 3 months.
Create your Perfect Holiday Cookie
The variations for these bars are endless!
- Try dark chocolate instead of white chocolate for a richer treat.
- Mix up the fruit — freeze dried raspberries or strawberries also work with these bars.
- Try some nuts. We think chopped pecans added to both the batter or the topping would be amazing here!
Other Keto Holiday Recipes to Try:
A Healthier Sweetener for you and your Family!
ZenSweet Monk Fruit Sweetener is a blend of monk fruit and erythritol, so you can take the sugar out of your pantry for good!
Our healthier sweeteners and baking mixes taste like the real thing — and are kid approved.
This recipe uses our Vanilla Bean Cake Mix. Create a classic cake, or get creative and use it in recipes like we did for these Cranberry Bliss Bars.
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Cranberry Bliss Bars
Ingredients
- 1 ZenSweet Vanilla Bean Cake Mix
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 cup sugar free dried cranberries divided
- 1 1/2 cups sugar free white chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons coconut oil
Instructions
- Into a food processor bowl, add the Vanilla Bean Cake Mix, along with cream cheese, cinnamon and ginger. Process until fully combined, but not long enough to melt the cream cheese.
- Reserve 2 tablespoons of the cranberries. Add the rest of the sugar free cranberries into the processor bowl, and process until they are incorporated into the mixture.
- Press the cookie dough into an 8×8 baking dish. Smooth out the top, and then freeze for about an hour to set the base of these bars.
- Melt white chocolate with some coconut oil for the decorative top.
- Add a layer of white chocolate, and then sprinkle on some chopped cranberries. If you’d like these to look like the Starbucks bar, reserve half of the white chocolate to drizzle over the top.
- Cut these bars as soon as the white chocolate sets. The sooner you can cut them after it starts to solidify, the better bars you’ll have. To cut these nicely, you’ll need the base to be almost frozen, but the white chocolate to still be slightly soft. Once the bars are cut, you can refrigerate them for up to a week or freeze them for up to 3 months.
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Notes
- Try dark chocolate instead of white chocolate for a richer treat.
- Mix up the fruit — freeze dried raspberries or strawberries also work with these bars.
- Try some nuts. We think chopped pecans added to both the batter or the topping would be amazing here!
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