Cherry almond nanaimo bars

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

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Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

----------------------------BASE---------------------------------
1/2 c Butter
1/4 c Sugar
1/3 c Cocoa
1 ts Vanilla
1 Egg; beaten
1 c Coconut, desiccated
1 3/4 c Graham wafer crumbs
1/2 c Almonds; chopped

--------------------------FILLING-------------------------------
1/4 c Butter; softened
1 tb Cherry juice
2 c Icing sugar
1/3 c Maraschino cherries; chopped

----------------------------TOP---------------------------------
2 oz Semisweet chocolate
1 tb Butter

BASE: Cook butter, sugar, cocoa, vanilla egg in saucepan over low
heat heat, stirring constantly until custard begins to thicken.
Remove from heat and stir in coconut, crumbs and almonds. Pat firmly
into a greased 9 pan inch square pan. Chill for 1 hour.

FILLING: Cream butter, cherry juice and extract. Gradually beat in
icing sugar to a make a smooth spreading consistency. Stir in
cherries. Spread over base and chill until firm.

TOP: Heat chocolate and butter, stirring until smoothly melted.
Drizzle chocolate over filling. Chill. Cut into bars. YIELD: 30 BARS

SOURCE: _Tastefully Yours_, All Saint Kingsway Anglican Church,
Toronto