Chocolate Cherry Bars

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 36
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 173.7
  • Total Fat: 9.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 11.5 mg
  • Sodium: 62.6 mg
  • Total Carbs: 21.7 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.4 g
  • Protein: 2.1 g

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Number of Servings: 36

Ingredients

    1-3/4 C all purpose flour
    1 c sugar
    1 cup cold margarine
    1/4 c baking cocoa
    1 egg, lightly beaten
    1 t almond extract
    1 can (21 oz) CHERRY PIE FILLING
    2 cups (12 oz) semi sweet chocolate chips
    1 c chopped almonds

Directions

In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar and cocoa. Cut in margarine until crumbly. Add egg and almond extract until blended, set aside 1 cup for topping. Press remaining crumb mixture into a greased 13x9x2x baking pan. Carefully top with pie filling. Combine chocolate chips, almonds and reserved crumb mixture; sprinkle over pie filling. Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool ;refrigerate for at least 2 hours hours before cutting. Yield 3 dozen.

Number of Servings: 36

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TORICHAMP.