Cranberry Tart Recipe +#Giveaway by Maya Corrigan

MAYA: Even though Thanksgiving is over, cranberries are still in season and have many uses besides sauce. With their deep red color, they make festive-looking tasty treats throughout the winter.   

What’s your favorite cranberry dish? Leave a comment in response and you may win a special cookie cutter. Scroll down for details. 

Ingredients

2 cups fresh washed cranberries
1 1/2 cups sugar (divided)
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup (one stick) melted butter
1 cup flour

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Butter or spray 10-inch pie pan. You can bake this in a 9-inch diameter pan or an 8-inch square pan, but anything smaller will require cutting back on the ingredients.
Beat the eggs and add 1 cup of sugar. Stir in vanilla, melted butter, and flour. Pour the mixture into the greased pan.
Sprinkle the cranberries with 1/2 cup of sugar and spread them over the dough in the pan.

Bake 45-60 minutes.

Mix the sugar, butter, vanilla, and flour.

Spread the dough in pie pan.

Top the dough with cranberries.

After baking, cool the tart. 

Slice and serve.

 

Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries featuring café manger Val and her live-wire grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Maya lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Before writing crime fiction, she taught American literature, writing, and detective fiction at Northern Virginia Community College and Georgetown University. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords. 

Visit her website for easy recipes, mystery history and trivia, and a free culinary mystery story.

 

The 7th and latest book in Maya's series is Gingerdead Man.

During Bayport's Dickens of a Holiday festival, Val is hosting a private tea party for the volunteers dressed as Dickens characters including Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past. A Santa who's more naughty than nice also comes to tea. An unexpected guest arrives, "shrouded in a deep black garment" like the eeriest Dickens ghost, and hands out gingerbread men with white icing skeleton bones. Though the creepy treat called a gingerdead man looks like a Halloween leftover, cookie addict Santa can't resist it. When the man in red turns blue, Val and Granddad have a cookie-cutter killer to catch.

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 What’s your favorite cranberry dish?

Comment by December 2nd for a chance to win a gingerdead man cookie cutter, like the one that has a role in my holiday book. Even if you don't roll out and decorate cookies, the gingerdead man cutter makes a good Halloween decoration. When you comment, be sure to include your e-mail address. For addresses outside the U.S., I will substitute cozy mystery swag or downloadable goodies for the cookie cutter.