| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 50 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 35 min |
| Yield: | 16 bars |
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 16 servings |
| Calories | 194 |
| Total Fat | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Carbohydrates | 26 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 13 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 25 mg |