Using leftover cranberry goo (pate de fruits? w.o. pectin?)
I made the cranberry topping from this recipe, and used some of it on a different dessert*:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vanilla-Bean-Cheesecake-with-Cranberry-Jewel-Topping-2618
If you want to skip the link, it’s roughly a 6:2:1 ratio of cranberries:sugar:water (assuming frozen cranberry cocktail is mostly sugar+water), boiled for 3 minutes.
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