I am a huge almond extract fan.
Anyone else share this feeling?
If you add almond extract to anything pretty much I’m a goner. So when I read there was not only almond extract in the dough but also in the glaze in these festive little cherry pie bars I knew I was going to love them.
Plus it had cherry. Yum. Now I can’t wait to try blueberry., but the hubby hates both of those. He says strawberry, but for some reason I can’t wrap my head around canned strawberry pie filling. Has anyone out there tried it?
I mean fresh strawberry pies I’m all about, but canned? I just don’t know about that. Why is it ok to use every other type of canned pie filling but not strawberry in my head? Good question. I’ll let you know if I figure it out later.
I love these little bars because, well, I hate making pie. So give me a slab pie and I’m done for. Heaven.
These would be fun festive treats for Christmas too, so if you have the “dessert” assignment for a holiday gathering look no further!
Ingredients
- 1 c. butter, softened
- 2 c. sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 3 c. flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cans (21 ounce) cherry pie filling
- 1 c. powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 2 Tbsp milk
Glaze
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, beating after each addition. Mix in extracts. Add flour and salt. Mix until well combined.
- Spread 3 cups of the batter in a greased jelly roll pan. Spread pie filling on top of dough. Drop remaining dough by tablespoonfuls on top of cherry pie topping.
- Baked at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool.
- Combine glaze ingredients and drizzle over bars. If serving the next day wait and do this before serving or the bars will be a bit soggy!
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Oh, I like the idea of using almond extract in the crust!
Everything tastes better with almond! This looks like a wonderful recipe to try! Thanks Julie!
I love cherry pie; my favorite so I’m sure I’d love these!! They have my mouth watering!
These look divine! They are being featured today…thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday http://www.flourmewithlove.com/2012/12/featuring-you_8133.html
Thank you so much for the feature!!!
This looks amazing! I have pinned for future baking but plan to buy all the ingredients tomorrow! I love Almond extract too and Cherry is my favorite fruit in pies. Perfect combo for me!
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I love almond extract too…these look amazing! Thanks for linking up at Weekend Potluck. (Would you recheck your link back? It won’t work for me?) Thanks much.
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These sound wonderful! My hubby is all about cherry, and I’m the one who wants strawberry. However, I agree with you that strawberry pie filling just doesn’t sound right.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one doubting the strawberry
Congrats Julie! This was the recipe with the most clicks at last week’s Weekend Potluck. They do look absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to see what you bring this week! Congrats and I hope your holidays are wonderful!
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Thank you so much Kim! It sure made my day when I logged in and saw the feature!
I am new at this baking thing, and was wondering if I was to use apple pie filling what kind of extract would I use? Oh by the way love your web site!
I think I would go with vanilla extract with the apple pie filling!
What size jelly roll pan do you use?
I think mine is a 10.5 x 15.5 pan!
What size jelly roll pan do you recommend? Mine definitely don’t appear like yours in the picture! They are tasty, but not as pretty!
I used a 15 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ pan!
Hi Julie!
These bars are super yummy. Just wondering how many servings you think this recipes makes? My best guess is 12. Am I right?
By the way, this recipe was featured in my local newspaper!
I would guess 16-20 servings depending on how big you like them! I would do either a 4×4 row or 4×5 row. Glad to hear it was in your newspaper!
OMG! These look sooo good. I am going to try a batch with cherries and another one with blueberry filling. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Mike! I hope you enjoy them!
I made your cherry pie bars for Easter and my family absolutely loved them! I wrote about them on my blog today and sent people your way for the recipe! Thanks for sharing we will have these often.
I found this recipe via Facebook community. They cropped your picture and didn’t give credit (unless “nothing on this page is ours. no infringement intended!” counts…) I had to hunt for your page using Google image search.
Here’s their page in case you want to say something. I don’t think they mean to be rude but none of their posts link to anyone’s page or give any credit. It’s bad internet etiquette if nothing else…
They actually have it twice – you will see both posts in their album here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.360860750691860.1073741832.324732720971330&type=3
Thank you so much! I’ve reported the copyright infringement to Facebook so we will if they make them take it down. You have no idea how much I appreciate you doing this!!!
You’re welcome! I read recently about food bloggers having problems with Facebook groups stealing their recipes and now I keep my eye out for it. It’d be one thing if they asked permission to share the picture and then pointed everyone to your site. But the way they copy everything and crop the picture is just wrong.
Exactly! We love when people share our posts, but don’t write the entire recipe out, not give us credit and no one even knows we exist! Do it properly and we are just fine. Share my picture and the title of the recipe with a link to it and you are good to go!
And here’s another one. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151579778870818&set=a.93795360817.84691.93792865817&type=3&theater
I guess it’s a compliment in a way but it makes me mad to see no credit given. It took me 3 seconds to find your page using Google image search. So these groups can’t even be trying!
(btw, on the original group I had pointed out to you earlier, one of the pictures is gone but the 2nd is still there.)