Bettys Fruit Cocktail Squares Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Combine all ingredients together, except brown sugar and nuts. Mix until well-blended.
• 2. Pour into greased 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
• 3. Combine brown sugar and chopped nuts. Sprinkle over top of batter.
• 4. Bake @ 350°F for 30 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool; cut in bars.

Steps:

• For base: Cut butter into flour and brown sugar until crumbly. Press into 9x9-inch buttered pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 15 minutes.
• Mix filling ingredients well. Pour over partially baked crumb layer. Return to oven and cook 20 minutes more.
• Cool before cutting into squares to serve.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir base ingredients until soft dough forms. Press half of dough in bottom of pan.
• Spread pie filling over dough. Drop remaining dough by teaspoonfuls over filling.
• Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 10 minutes.
• In small bowl, stir glaze ingredients until smooth. If necessary, add additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over warm bars. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 4 rows. Store covered at room temperature.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare bread crumbs:
• Grind bread to fine crumbs in a food processor. Spread in a shallow baking pan and toast in middle of oven, stirring once, until golden, about 5 minutes. Leave oven on.
• Make shortbread base:
• Cut butter into 1/2-inch pieces, then pulse in a food processor with flour, brown sugar, and salt until it begins to form small lumps. Sprinkle base into a 13- by 9-inch baking pan and press evenly onto bottom. Bake in middle of oven until golden, about 20 minutes.
• Prepare filling while shortbread is baking:
• Melt butter and keep warm. Peel, quarter, and core apples and thinly slice quarters crosswise. Stir together sugar and flour in a small bowl.
• Assemble and bake squares:
• Sprinkle half of sugar mixture over hot shortbread, then top with apples and sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture. Top with bread crumbs and drizzle all of butter over them.
• Bake in upper third of oven, pressing down on filling with a metal spatula halfway through baking, until apples are very tender and bread crumbs are golden, 50 minutes to 1 hour total. Cool 20 minutes in pan on a rack.

Steps:

• In heavy saucepan, heat sugar, water, lime juice and basil over high heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; discard basil sprig.
• In large glass bowl, mix nectarines, peaches, cherries and pineapple. Pour sugar syrup over fruit; stir to coat. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 9x9 inch square baking pan.
• Combine the flour, white sugar, egg, baking soda, vanilla and undrained fruit cocktail. Mix until blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the brown sugar.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes or until golden brown and firm.

Steps:

• Mix graham cracker crumbs with butter. Press into an 8 x 8 pan and bake for 15 minutes @ 300°F.
• Combine fruit cocktail, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice. Mix thoroughly.
• Spread fruit cocktail mixture over graham wafer crust.
• Bake @ 350F for 15 minutes (or until firm).
• Cool and top with whipped cream (if desired).

Steps:

• Drain the fruit cocktail and reserve 1/3 cup of the syrup. Add the 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry syrup to the reserved fruit cocktail syrup. Chop the drained fruit, and set it aside.
• Stir together in a bowl the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter or margarine and sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour mixture, alternating with the syrups, to the creamed mixture. Mix well. Stir in the chopped fruit, the coconut and the cherries.
• Spread dough into a greased 9 inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. Sprinkle sifted confectioners' sugar over the top if desired. Cut into squares.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat sugar and eggs until blended. Beat in fruit cocktail and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture until well blended. , Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with coconut and walnuts. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes. , In a small saucepan, bring the sugar, butter and milk to a boil. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Drizzle over cake. Cool. Cut into bars.