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Fabulous Fruit Bars

Honorable Mention - Contest Recipe 2007! Bake a warm and cozy fruit dessert bar using cookie mix and pie filling, ingredients already in your cupboard.

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Prep Time 20 min
Total Time 1 hr 20 min
Servings 24

Ingredients

Base

2: pouches (1 lb 1.5 oz each) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix

1: cup butter or margarine, softened

1/2: teaspoon almond extract

2: eggs

Filling

1: can (21 oz) cherry pie filling

Topping

1: cup powdered sugar

1: tablespoon milk

1/4: teaspoon almond extract

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray.
2 In large bowl, stir base ingredients until soft dough forms. Press half of dough in bottom of pan.
3 Spread pie filling over dough. Drop remaining dough by teaspoonfuls over filling.
4 Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 10 minutes.
5 In small bowl, stir glaze ingredients until smooth. If necessary, add additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over warm bars. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 4 rows. Store covered at room temperature.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

This recipe was awarded honorable mention in the 2007 Mix It Up with Betty! Cookie Mix Recipe Contest.

Serve warm with a scoop of ice cream.

Use your favorite flavor of pie filling.

Got questions? Our experts have the answers. Ask Betty now.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Bar

Calories: 300
Calories from Fat: 110),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 12g; 12%
(Saturated Fat 6g, 6% Trans Fat 2g 2% ),
Cholesterol: 40mg; 40%;
Sodium: 160mg; 160%;
Total Carbohydrate: 45g; 45%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 30g 30% ),
Protein: 2g; 2%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 6%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 0%;
Iron: 4%;

Exchanges:

1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 4/26/2013 7:07:04 PM REPORT ABUSE MarieEZielinski said:

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These were awesome. The almond flavoring added so much. I thought they would be hard to cut, but the cheery pie filling softened the cookie. Glaze was hard to drizzle on top. I might thin it a bit next time. We will try apple filling next.

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Posted 4/24/2013 6:09:01 PM REPORT ABUSE kmkathan said:

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I tried this with peach filling and glaze....very yummy! Now trying it with oatmeal cookie dough and blueberry pie filling.....if it tastes as good as it smells.....mmmmmmmm!

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Posted 4/24/2013 3:50:05 PM REPORT ABUSE kmkathan said:

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I tried this with peach filling and glaze....very yummy! Now trying it with oatmeal cookie dough and blueberry pie filling.....if it tastes as good as it smells.....mmmmmmmm!

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