CHERRY ALMOND BARS

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Provided by Food Network

Categories dessert

Time 50m

Yield 16 bars

Number Of Ingredients 12

Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
6 tbsps. Crisco® Puritan Canola Oil with Omega-3 DHA
2 tsps. water
1/2 tsp. almond extract
3/4 cup Smucker's® Cherry Sugar Free Preserves or Smucker's® Cherry Preserves
TOPPING:
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsps. Crisco® Puritan Canola Oil with Omega-3 DHA

Steps:

HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Line bottom and sides of 8 x 8-inch pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick cooking spray.
STIR together flour, brown sugar and salt until mixed. Add oil, water and almond extract. Combine with fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pat evenly in bottom of prepared pan.
BAKE 15 minutes.
SPREAD preserves evenly over warm crust. Mix almonds, brown sugar and oil until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over top of preserves.
BAKE 20 minutes. Cool completely. Lift out of pan using foil. Cut into 16 bars. Store in refrigerator.