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Cherry Almond Bars

Cherry Almond Bars
Recipe provided by Smucker's®
18 ServingsReady In Time 1 hour, 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
  • 1 1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 6 tbsps. Crisco® Puritan Canola Oil with Omega-3 DHA
  • 2 tbsps. water
  • 1/2 tsp. almond extract
  • 3/4 cup Smucker's® Cherry Sugar Free Preserves or Smucker's® Cherry Preserves
  • TOPPING
  • 1/2 cup chopped almonds
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tbsps. Crisco® Puritan Canola Oil with Omega-3 DHA

Directions

  • Heat oven to 350°F. Line bottom and sides of 8 x 8-inch pan with
  • foil, extending foil over edges of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick
  • cooking spray.
  • Stir together flour, brown sugar and salt until mixed. Add oil, water
  • and almond extract. Combine with fork until mixture resembles coarse
  • crumbs. Pat evenly in bottom of prepared pan.
  • Bake 15 minutes.
  • Spread preserves evenly over warm crust. Mix almonds, brown sugar and
  • oil until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over top of
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Cherry Almond Bars (continued)

Directions (continued)

  • preserves.
  • Bake 20 minutes. Cool completely. Lift out of pan using foil. Cut
  • into 16 bars. Store in refrigerator. Yield: 18 bars.
TIP For Strawberry Almond Bars, use Sugar Free Seedless Strawberry Jam or Low Sugar Strawberry Preserves instead of cherry.
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