Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9x9" pan with parchment, set aside.
In a small bowl, add your dried cranberries. Add enough hot water to the bowl to cover the cranberries and let sit for about 15 minutes.
In a small-medium bowl, measure out flour and add salt, cinnamon, ginger and baking powder. Set aside.
In a medium-large bowl, melt butter and add brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix with spatula until combined.
Add vanilla, egg and additional yolk and mix until eggs are fully incorporated.
Add dry ingredients to wet, and stir until just combined, not overmixing.
Dump the excess water from your bowl of cranberries and place them on a paper towel. Blot them so they are mostly dry.
Chop the cranberries into smaller pieces. How big is up to you, I cut them so they were about quartered.
Add your white chocolate chips and chopped dried cranberries, stir until evenly dispersed.
Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing out into one even layer. It will be pretty thin, which is what you want.
Bake blondies on center rack of oven for 16-18 minutes - if baking in a smaller pan see recipe notes below. Blondies will be done when the top of blondies are set. Mine had a crinkly paper top at this point and the edges were beginning to pull away from the edge of the pan.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan completely, which might take several hours. I put mine in the refrigerator (pan NOT covered) to chill after an hour to help keep the texture chewy.
Once the bars are completely cooled, make your frosting. In a medium-large bowl, add your cream cheese, orange zest and powdered sugar. Beat together until smooth.
Add your lemon and vanilla extract and mix well.
Smooth your frosting over the top of your bars.
Chop your dried cranberries and sprinkle over the cream cheese frosting generously.
Melt your white chocolate. Either in a microwave or double boiler. Drizzle over the top of the bars from either piping bag with a fine tip or sandwich bag with the tip cut off.
Cut the bars your bars into any shape (I chose triangle like their famous inspiration but squares works just as well) and serve. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Enjoy!
