Chocolate Raspberry Squares
This elegant bar cookie is loaded with wonderful flavors and very easy
to assemble. You can add a nice extra
touch by sprinkling the bars with confectioners’ sugar..
— Marilyn
Swisher
1
1/2 cups all-purpose
flour
1
1/2 cups quick-cooking
or old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown
sugar, packed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold
butter
3/4 cup seedless
raspberry jam
1 package semisweet
chocolate chunks (11.5 ounces)
1/4 cup chopped
walnuts
1. In
a large bowl, combine the flour, oats, sugars and salt.
2. Cut
in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside 1 cup for topping; press the
remaining crumb mixture into a greased 9-ince square baking pan.
3. Spread
with jam; sprinkle with the chocolate chunks.
4. Combine
the walnuts and reserved crumb mixture; sprinkle over the top.
5. Bake
at 375 F for 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned and bubbly. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares.
Yield: 16 servings.
Source: Reminisce magazine
February/March
2008