Fruit Crumb Bars

This is 1 of those wonderfully versatile recipes that is simply equally skillful amongst apple tree filling, equally it is amongst cherry filling, or blueberry; any your menage unit of measurement likes the best.

The crumb crust/topping goes together inwards simply a yoke minutes amongst the nutrient processor as well as if you lot tin hold off long plenty for the bars to cool downwards to room temperature, they cutting beautifully. We (obviously) couldn't hold off that long (in the photograph below).




CRUMB CRUST/TOPPING
3 cups all role flour
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup COLD butter (cubed)
1 egg, beaten

Put the flour, sugar, baking pulverization tabular array salt and cubed butter into the nutrient processor as well as pulse until good mixed.  If you lot don't convey a nutrient processor, exercise it amongst a pastry cutter as well as operate it until the butter is good mixed. Add egg as well as mix good (it volition hold off similar coarse sand).

Press HALF of this mixture into a greased 9" x 13" baking dish.  Top amongst fruit filling as well as overstep amongst the other one-half of the crumb mixture.

Bake at 375° if you lot are using a metallic baking pan or 350° if you lot are using glass, for xl minutes or until overstep crumbs are low-cal golden.

If you lot cool the bars completely earlier you lot cutting them,
they volition cutting real neatly (it is non necessary, but it
makes for a prettier presentation.
 
CHERRY FRUIT FILLING (or usage your favorite filling)
(2) fourteen ounce cans tart pie cherries packed inwards water
1 1/2 cups saccharide (DIVIDED)
4 tablespoons + 2 teaspoon cornstarch
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon almond extract (do non instruct out out)

Drain the cherries, but relieve the juice.  Put one loving cup of the juice inwards a saucepan as well as add together HALF of the sugar, the cornstarch as well as salt. Bring to a boil as well as develop until overnice as well as thick.

Remove from estrus as well as stir inwards the OTHER HALF of the sugar, the cherries as well as the almond extract. 

Glaze   (optional)
2 tablespoon butter melted
2 cups powdered sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract (do non instruct out out)

While bars are yet a fiddling warm, mix two tablespoons melted butter amongst two cups powdered sugar, well-nigh iii or iv tablespoons of milk as well as 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract as well as 1/2 teaspoon almond extract. Whisk until shine as well as drizzle over fruit bars.

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