Enjoy these bars made using cherries and topped with chocolate - a delicious baked dessert.
Chocolate-Covered Cherry Diamonds
- Prep Time 10 min
- Total 1 hr 15 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 1 jar (6 oz) maraschino cherries
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 bag (11.5 oz) milk chocolate chips (2 cups)
- 12 red candied cherries, cut into fourths, if desired
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 325°F (if using dark or nonstick pan, heat oven to 300°F). Drain maraschino cherries, reserving liquid. Finely chop maraschino cherries.
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Step2In large bowl, beat powdered sugar, butter, cherry liquid and almond extract with electric mixer on low speed until well mixed. Beat in flour and salt until well mixed. Stir in maraschino cherries. On bottom of ungreased 15x10x1-inch pan, spread dough.
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Step3Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
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Step4Immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips. Let stand about 5 minutes or until chocolate is softened; spread chocolate evenly over bars with spatula. Cool in pan on wire rack 30 minutes. For diamond shapes, cut bars diagonally into 8 rows by 6 rows. Garnish with candied cherries.
Nutrition
110
Calories
6g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
13g
Total Carbohydrate
7g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 110
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 16%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 55mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 13g
- 4%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 7g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 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 Choice
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