Cooking Recipe Cherry Almond Nanaimo Bars
Recipe Ingredients
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
Directions
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