Cherry! Pie! Om nom nom. These were actually supposed to be a lot thinner and flakier than they turned out, as they were supposed to be in a 10x15 inch pan, but I didn't have one of those handy. Instead they ended up being more cake-like, which I think was actually better. The chocolate glaze was delicious, I expected it to be overpowering but it actually went with the cherries quite well. If you're not a fan of chocolate, this would probably taste good with either vanilla or cream cheese icing as well.
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup butter
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
21 ounces cherry pie filling
GLAZE
3/4 cups powdered sugar
1/5 cup cocoa
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
3 tablespoons milk
Cream sugar and butter in mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, until incorporated. Add the almond extract and beat well. Whisk together flour and baking powder. Turn mixer speed down to lowest setting and slowly add flour mixture until completely combined.
Spread half of mixture onto an greased 9x13 pan. Spread pie filling over the top of the batter. Drop remaining batter onto the pie filling layer by spoonfuls.
Bake for 45 minutes at 350 or until golden brown. Do not under bake. Remove to a wire rack.
Combine powdered sugar, cocoa, melted margarine and milk and drizzle over warm bars.
Allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.
Adapted from: Amanda's Cooking
Hi Kahleigh! First of all, they look great! Second, so glad you liked them and thank you for linking back to me :) :) I was just going through my Webmaster Tools account and found that a 404 error page on my blog was originating from this post. I can't believe how picky this is, but looks like there's a space at the end of the url that you linked to, so when you click through it doesn't work. Sheesh, you would think google would have enough smarts to figure that out! Anyway, would you be so kind as to correct it when you get a minute? Here's the correct link http://www.amandascookin.com/2010/07/cherry-pie-squares.html which you do have, it's just the space at the end of the link that's causing the problem. Thanks so much! :)
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