Ladies' Paint Night at the Snap Dragon Lounge

Ladies' Painting Night at the Snap Dragon Lounge 

5:30pm (ish) Friday, November 7, 2025

Menu:

Bluebird Cocktail, wine, ridiculously fabulous cheese, fat cocktail shrimp with spicy red sauce, wavy chips, various chocolate treats, cranberry crumble bars-GF (see recipe below) and butternut squash soup with roasted peppers- a little bit on the spicy side!

Bring your own art supplies or share mine- water color paint, etc.

Prepare to vent, laugh, indulge and imbibe.

 Jam Bars 

(makes 16 squares)

1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled

2/3 cup sugar

3/4 teaspoon Kosher salt

grated zest of 2 lemons

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 1/4 cups AP flour OR 2 1/4 cups King Arthur Measure for Measure GF Flour

1 cup old fashioned oats

1 cup jam of choice

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray/butter a square 8x8 inch baking pan and line both ways with parchment leaving at least 1 inch overhang on each side.

Melt butter and allow to cool. Meanwhile, add sugar, salt and lemon zest to stand mixer and mix on low until sugar is moist and smells of lemon.- about a minute or so. Add the melted, cooled butter and mix just to combine. Add vanilla extract. Add flour and oats. Mix to just combine. 

Line a baking pan with parchment. Remove 1 cup of mixture and crumble over line pan. Spread out the mixture to create the crumble topping. Do not press down- you want to creates chunks of crumbly topping here.

Take the rest of the mixture and press evenly into the square baking pan using your hands.

Place both the square baking pan and the baking sheet with crumble topping into the oven and bake for 20 minutes. 

Remove both from oven. Gently spread jam over the base in the square pan. Top the jam with the par-baked crumble. Place back into oven and bake for 25-35 minutes until the crumble and crust are lightly browned and the jam is bubbling up on the edges. (If using GF flour, it will likely take the full 35 minutes, less time for AP flour.)

Remove from oven and allow to cool on a rack until firm. Remove bars from pan with parchment and cut into desired size pieces to serve.

Variations:

Substitute vegan butter for regular butter. 

Sub out jam for cranberry sauce. Spread out cranberry sauce onto par-cooked dough, sprinkle with nutmeg, cinnamon and a pinch of clove.

Spread room temperature goat cheese over par-baked crust and top with jam before topping with crumble for a more savory taste- great with cocktails!