Recipe - Cherry Almond Nanaimo Bars

BASE
One half cup Butter
One fourth cup Sugar
1/3 cup Cocoa
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Egg; beaten
1 cup Coconut; desiccated
1 Three fourths cup Graham wafer crumbs
One half cup Almonds; chopped

FILLING
One fourth cup Butter; softened
1 tablespoon Cherry juice
2 cup Icing sugar
1/3 cup Maraschino cherries; chopped

TOPPING
2 ounce Semisweet chocolate
1 tablespoon Butter

BASE: Cook butter, sugar, cocoa, vanilla & egg in saucepan over low heat
heat, stirring constantly until custard begins to thicken. Remove from heat
and stir in coconut, crumbs and almonds. Pat firmly into a greased 9 pan
inch square pan. Chill for 1 hour. FILLING: Cream butter, cherry juice and
extract. Gradually beat in icing sugar to a make a smooth spreading
consistency. Stir in cherries. Spread over base and chill until firm. TOP:
Heat chocolate and butter, stirring until smoothly melted. Drizzle
chocolate over filling. Chill. Cut into bars. YIELD: 30 BARS SOURCE
Tastefully Yours, All Saint Kingsway Anglican Church, Toronto
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #801 by Nancy Berry nlberry@prodigy.net on
Sep 24, 1997