Christmas

Chocolate Cherry Bars is for Dessert.

Chocolate Cherry Bars takes several minutes to prepare.

Chocolate Cherry Bars takes several minutes to cook.

Chocolate Cherry Bars makes 36 servings.

The ingredients for Chocolate Cherry Bars are:

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

Here is how you make Chocolate Cherry Bars:

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: 36Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TORICHAMP.

The nutritional information for Chocolate Cherry Bars is:

• 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