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How To Make Cherry Bars
These cherry bars have cherry pie filling on top of soft cookie dough. Glazed with sweet vanilla cream, this dessert is a serious crowd-pleaser.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Bars:
- 1cupbuttersoftened
- 2cupssugar
- 1tspsalt
- 4eggs
- 3cupsall purpose flour
- ¾tspvanilla extract
- ¾tspalmond extract
- 2canscherry pie filling
- cooking spray
For Glaze:
- 1cuppowdered sugar
- ¼tspvanilla extract
- ¼tspalmond extract
- 2tbspmilk
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 10-inch x 15-inch jelly roll pan with cooking spray.
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Place the butter, sugar and salt in the bowl of a mixer. Beat for 2 to 3 minutes or until fluffy.
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Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
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With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the flour. Stir in the vanilla and almond extracts.
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Spread ⅔ of the dough evenly over the bottom of the pan.
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Spread the pie filling over the dough.
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Place teaspoon sized dollops of dough all over the surface of the pie filling.
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Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely in the pan.
Glaze:
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Whisk together the powdered sugar, extracts and milk. Add more milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, if making a thinner glaze.
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Drizzle the glaze over the bars. Let the glaze harden, then cut into squares and serve.
Nutrition
- Calories: 288.71kcal
- Fat: 9.71g
- Saturated Fat: 5.21g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.00g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.82g
- Carbohydrates: 47.85g
- Fiber: 0.72g
- Sugar: 21.71g
- Protein: 2.82g
- Cholesterol: 47.12mg
- Sodium: 118.98mg
- Calcium: 15.78mg
- Potassium: 83.30mg
- Iron: 0.98mg
- Vitamin A: 81.67µg
- Vitamin C: 1.78mg
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