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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven 350 degrees. | 2. Spray 9x13 inch baking dish with oil. | 3. In a bowl, using a fork, stir flour with 1/2 cup icing sugar; using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the 1 cup of butter until coarse crumbs form. | 4. OR. | 5. Whirl flour with icing sugar in food processor until mixed. Add butter, pulse until coarse crumbs form. | 6. Press mixture over bottom of baking dish. | 7. Bake in centre of oven until light golden around the edges, 25 - 30 minutes. Remove from oven, set aside. | 8. Meanwhile, in a bowl, stir flour, baking powder and salt. | 9. In a separate bowl, put beaten eggs then stir in brown sugar. | 10. Gradually stir in flour mixture, then add almonds and cherries. | 11. Spread over warm base. | 12. Bake in centre of oven until filling is set, 25 - 30 minutes. | 13. To prepare topping - in a small bowl, using an electric beater, beat cherry juice with 3 tblsp butter and almond extract. | 14. Gradually beat in 2 cups icing sugar until fluffy. | 15. Cover and set aside. Cool bars, then spread icing evenly over top. | 16. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before cutting into bars. | 17. Store in an airtight container, refrigerate up to 1 week or freeze up to 1 month. | 18. Note: if you use the cherry juice for the frosting it will be a nice pink colour! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	2	cups		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
icing sugar	1/2	cup	sifted	-	-	-	-
butter	1	cup	unsalted cut	1627.59	0.1362	1.9295	184.1197
flour	1/4	cup		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
baking powder	1/2	teaspoon		1.219	0.6371	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	2		beaten	143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
brown sugar	1 1/2	cups		1254.0	323.697	0.396	0.0
almond	1	cup	chopped	1927.12	0.0	0.0	218.0
maraschino cherry	3/4	cup	drained chopped	-	-	-	-
maraschino cherry juice	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	3	tablespoons	unsalted	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
almond extract	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
icing sugar	2	cups	sifted	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.