Fruit Streusel Bars Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and mix on medium speed just until combined. With the mixer on low, add the vanilla.
• Sift the flour and salt together and, with the mixer on low, slowly add to the butter mixture, mixing until it almost comes together in a ball. Turn the dough out on a board. Lightly pat two-thirds of the dough evenly on the bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan and about 1/4-inch up the sides. Spread with the jam, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Mix the granola into the remaining dough with your hands. Break the dough into small bits and distribute it on top of the jam, covering most of the surface. Sprinkle the almonds on top. Bake the bars for 45 minutes, until lightly browned.
• Cool completely and cut into 9 or 12 bars. Sprinkle lightly with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 °. Crust: Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl. Cut in butter (you can use a blender, pastry blender, forks, etc) until you have pea sized crumbles. Gently mix in beaten egg.
• 2. Spray an 8x8 baking dish with cooking spray. Gently press about 2/3 of the crumb mixture into the bottom of the dish. Set aside.
• 3. Filling: In a large bowl combine sliced apples, flour, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Toss to combine, until apples are well coated. Spread apples onto crumb pastry crust. Sprinkle reserved crust mixture evenly over the top of the apples slices. Bake for 45-55 minutes.
• 4. If doing glaze cool cake completely. Glaze: In a small bowl whisk together powdered sugar, extract, and enough milk to reach desired consistency. Drizzle glaze over cooled bars and allow to harden.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Process all ingredients in food processor until they begin to hold together. Pour into a half sheet pan and press evenly into bottom of pan. Bake until golden brown (about 20 to 25 minutes). Take out and cool for at least 15 mi
• Spread the raspberry jam evenly over the baked crust. Combine the flour, butter and sugar in a mixer or food processor and mix until crumbly. Sprinkle over the top of the jam and return to oven. Bake until streusel is golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool com
• Melt each chocolate separately and place in a pastry bag or plastic bag with a corner cut off and drizzle over the cooled raspberry bars Jackson Pollack st

Steps:

• For crust:
• Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Combine first 4 ingredients in medium bowl. Add butter; rub with fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press half of crumb mixture onto bottom of prepared pan. Bake crust until light brown, about 15 minutes. Cool slightly.
• For filling:
• Mix blueberries, jam, flour and lemon peel in bowl.
• Spread filling over crust. Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over. Bake until topping is golden, about 35 minutes. Cool in pan. Cut into squares and serve.

Steps:

• Line a 9x13 aluminum baking pan with heavy duty foil.
• Leave 2-3 inches of foil sticking out of the pan on the short sides to aid in lifting the finished product out of the pan.
• FOR THE PASTRY.
• In a small bowl or plastic bag measure and mix flours and salt.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (can be done with a hand mixer), mix the butter, vanilla extract and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Add flours 1 cup at a time, on medium speed, mixing until fully incorporated after each addition.
• Continue mixing until the dough begins to come together in large clumps.
• Press dough into prepared pan about 1/4-inch thick.
• Prick the pastry with the tines of a fork or a wooden skewer.
• Chill until firm, about 20 minutes.
• While the pastry is resting, Place rack in center of oven.
• Preheat to 375°F.
• Spread nuts on a cookie sheet and roast for 5-10 minutes, until hot and aromatic (do not burn them!) Allow to cool Bake pastry until golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes.
• Lower oven temp to 350 degrees.
• Allow to cool 10 minutes on a rack, have filling and topping ready when crust is cool TOPPING.
• Combine dry ingredients, whisk to combine and remove lumps from brown sugar, rub butter into dry ingredients until it resembles coarse corn meal (a few pea sized lumps of butter are ok) add almonds and toss to combine, set aside.
• FILLING.
• In a small sauce pan heat jam to a simmer while stirring, add cornstarch/water mixture, bring back to a simmer for 60 seconds.
• Remove from heat.
• Spread filling evenly onto baked crust, sprinkle with topping and bake 20-30 minutes, until lightly browned and aromatic.
• Cool on a wire rack, remove from pan and cut into bars.
• Sift powdered sugar on top.

Steps:

• 1. Combine flour, brown sugar, salt. Cut in butter with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.Stir in oats & blend thoroughly. Set aside 1 1/2 cups of this mixturefor topping.
• 2. Press remaining mixture evenly over the bottom of a greased 13 X 9 baking pan.
• 3. Spread preserves over crumbs within 1/4" of sides of pan.
• 4. Cut in 2 tablespoons of butter into reserve crumb topping; stir in nuts. Sprinkle over preserves & press down lightly.
• 5. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 25 - 30 mins. or until lightly brown.
• 6. Cool in pan and cut into bars.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375*.
• Combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon.
• Beat in butter just until moistened.
• Set aside 2 cups.
• Pat the rest into a greased 13x9 pan.
• Bake for 15 minutes.
• Toss apples with the 2 T flour.
• Stir in preserves.
• Spread over hot crust almost to edges.
• Mix nuts and the 2 cups oat mixture.
• Sprinkle over the apples.
• Bake for another 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom of 8-inch square pan with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, flour, almond extract and egg until dough forms. Press half of dough into bottom of pan; bake 15 minutes. Spread jam over base. Crumble remaining dough over jam.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely, about 2 hours. For bars, cut into 5 rows by 5 rows.