Want a delicious dessert recipe? Then try these chocolate, cherries and nut bars drizzled with candy coating – perfect to treat a crowd.
Festive Two-in-One Bars
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 2 hr 45 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 36
Ingredients
- 1 roll (18 oz) refrigerated sugar cookies
- 1/4 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)
- 1/4 cup chopped salted peanuts
- 1/2 cup chopped mixed candied red and green cherries
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating or almond bark
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark pan). In medium bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in cocoa until well blended. With floured fingers, press dough evenly in bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch pan.
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Step2Sprinkle half of dough with chocolate chips and peanuts; sprinkle remaining half with cherries and pecans.
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Step3Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until edges are set. Cool completely on wire rack, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
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Step4In 1-quart saucepan, heat candy coating and oil over low heat about 2 minutes, stirring constantly, until coating is melted and smooth. Drizzle over cooled cherry-topped bars. Let stand until set, about 30 minutes. Cut into 6 rows by 6 rows.
Nutrition
120
Calories
6g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 120
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 10%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 9%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 45mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 50mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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