WW Recipe of the Day: Slow Cooker Cranberry Caramel Cookie Bars
I've been a big fan of Cookie Swaps for as long as I can remember.
So, this year I decided to participate in the Third Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, hosted by, Love & and Olive Oil and The Little Kitchen.
To participate, I made a $4.00 donation to Cookies for Kid's Cancer, a non-profit organization that raises money for pediatric cancer research. As a Thank You, OXO sent me 3 colorful heat resistant spatulas.
I was then given the names of three fellow food bloggers, Meghan from Spoonful of Flour, Allison from What This Mamma Eats, and Mandy from Kitchen Joy.
I sent each of them a dozen of my homemade Cranberry Caramel Slow Cooker Cookie Bars, an easy and delicious no-bake cookie, for which I used my slow cooker to melt the caramel.
Slow Cooker Cranberry Caramel Cookie Bars
In return, I received a dozen cookies each from three other food bloggers. Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cristina of Cupcake and Bacon, Molasses Cookies from Chelsea of This Grand Adventure, and Dark Chocolate Sour Cream Crinkle Cookies from Stacie of The Divine Miss Mommy.
How fun is that?
The Skinny on No-Bake Cranberry Caramel Slow Cooker Cookie Bars
It took me a while to choose these No-Bake Cranberry Caramel Cookie Bars as the cookies I should share. I knew I wanted a recipe for which I could use the slow cooker, that would travel well and taste great.
So I turned to Camilla Saulsbury's The Ultimate Shortcut Cookie Book: More Than 800 Scrumptious Recipes that Start with Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Cake Mix, Brownie Mix, or Ready-to-Eat Cereal (affiliate link), selecting these cranberry caramel slow cooker cookie bars from dozens that I thought would work.
The perfect combination of sweet, chewy, tart and crunchy, Rod gave them an enthusiastic endorsement. My mom and sister approved too.
And melting the caramel in the slow cooker made these cranberry caramel slow cooker cookie bars such a breeze to make.
How Many Calories and Weight Watchers Points in this No Bake Caramel Cookie Bar Treat?
According to my calculations, each cookie bar has 181 calories and:
7 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
7 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
7 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
5 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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If you like these no-bake cranberry caramel bar cookies, be sure to check out my other WW Friendly sweets recipes, including No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, No-Bake Maple Cranberry Crunch Bars, Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookie Dough Bites, Slow Cooker Caramel Mocha Crunch Bars and No-Bake Rice Krispie Date Balls
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Cranberry Caramel Slow Cooker Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 1 package (11 ounces) caramels, unwrapped (I used the caramel bits that don't need unwrapping!)
- ½ cup butter, cut into pieces
- 1-½ sleeves saltine crackers (about 58 crackers) coarsely broken
- 2 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- ¾ cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup chopped, roasted, lightly salted almonds, divided
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
- Ideal slow cooker size: 2-Quart.
- Place the unwrapped caramels and butter in your slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW 2 to 3 hours, until melted, stirring every 20 to 30 minutes.
- Lightly coat a 13 x 9-inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together the broken crackers, white chocolate chips, marshmallows, cranberries and half of the chopped almonds. Set aside.
- When the caramels are melted and the mixture is well blended, stir in the almond extract. Pour the warm caramel mixture over the cracker mixture and toss to coat well.
- Working quickly, press the mixture into the prepared pan, pressing down with a square of wax paper.
- Sprinkle evenly with the reserved chopped almonds, pressing them down gently.
- Cover and refrigerate until completely, cooled, about 30 minutes.
- Cut into 36 bars.
- Store in covered containers between layers of wax paper.
Recipe Notes
Source: The Ultimate Shortcut Cookie Book: More Than 800 Scrumptious Recipes that Start with Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Cake Mix, Brownie Mix, or Ready-to-Eat Cereal (affiliate link)
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
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Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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Allison
These were SO good! I will be pinning this recipe for future use 🙂
Martha McKinnon
Thanks, Allison.
I'm so glad you liked them 🙂
Joyce
I enjoy so many of your recipes. I wonder why some of them have a Pinterest link and others don't. I am trying to consolitdsate my recipes in one spot
Kate
Can these be frozen?
Martha McKinnon
Hi Kate, I haven't tried to freeze them but believe that they would be fine. ~Martha