Cherry Bars

Hi all.

This is one of those recipes that you probably already have all the ingredients for it in your house.

I had my own recipe for the cherry bars, but one day I could not find my recipe book, and I had already said I'd make something for coffee house so I turned to allrecipes, typed in cherry pie filling in the ingredients list section, and found that they had just as good a recipe as the one I had. The recipe I originally had came from the brio magazine-back in the day. There are also so many variations you can do which I love.

I made them for Victor's birthday party and my aunt's loved them so they are pretty good for bars.

You will need:

1 cup butter softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 (21 ounce) cans cherry pie filling
GLAZE:
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 tablespoons milk

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the extracts. Combine flour and salt; add to the creamed mixture. Mix just until combined.
2. Spread 3 cups batter into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Spread with pie filling. Drop the remaining batter by teaspoonfuls over filling.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Combine the glaze ingredients; drizzle over bars.

 You don't have to use the almond extract but I really liked them with it. Also, for spreading some of the dough over the cherries wet your fingers-makes it much easier to spread the dough out!

Picture from Victor's birthday party.

Blessings,

Lesya