Cherry Jewel Bars
"Wonderful Christmas bars - very colourful and tasty to eat too. These look fantastic on your Christmas platter."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
48
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2⁄3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup margarine, softened
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups mixed nuts
- 1 1⁄2 cups halved candied cherries
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
directions
- PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees.
- COMBINE flour with 1/3 cup brown sugar. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press mixture evenly and firmly onto bottom of ungreased 15 x 10 jelly roll pan or large baking tin. Bake for 15 minutes.
- MEANWHILE, beat egg slightly in large bowl. Stir in remaining 1/3 cup brown sugar and salt. Add nuts cherries and chocolate chips. Toss mixture evenly to coat.
- SPOON this mixture evenly over the baked layer. Press down firmly to adhere layers.
- BAKE an additional 20 minutes.
- COOL and cut into 1 1/2 by 2 inch bars. Do NOT let this cool too much or you will never get them out of the pan in nice pieces.
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Reviews
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Really pretty Christmasy square! I used red & green maraschino cherries, as a personal preference. I was skeptical about everything holding together with such few ingredients but it did! -
The bars are delicious so thank you Laurasy for posting this. My only problems with the recipe were that my pan was a little bit bigger (2" in length and 1/2" in width) so I decided to stop short of the end by a few inches just in case but the batter would not reach within 4" of the end and without a guide as to how thick it should be it ended up too thin as a result of trying to stretch it a little more. In retrospect I would use a 9" by 10" pan and make a higher base so it doesn't fall apart as I lift the bars out of the pan. My husband and kids love it though so flavour and appearance-wise its a winner!
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