Triple Fruit Bars
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
24
ingredients
-
Crust
- 1 cup butter
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
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Filling
- 2 medium pears, peeled and sliced
- 2 medium tart apples, peeled and sliced
- 1 cup coarsely chopped dried cranberries
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3⁄4 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
directions
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
- In a bowl with your mixer, cream margarine and sugar.
- Add eggs one at at time, beating each one in well.
- Mix in vanilla.
- Mix in dry ingredients.
- Spread 2/3 of the batter in a 9X13" pan.
- For filling: In medium saucepan, toss fruit with flour.
- Blend in remaining filling ingredients.
- Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
- Cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until fruit is tender.
- Cool completely.
- Spread fruit filling over batter in pan.
- Dob on remaining batter on top. (Some areas will not be covered with batter.).
- Bake for around 35 minutes.
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I'm a med school student that loves to cook. You might have guessed though that being a college student doesn't give me a whole lot of money to spend on ingredients and such. So instead, whenever I go home, I try to cook something new for parents.