A chocolate cake with a delicious chocolate filling, pink icing, and chocolate stripes on top. Anyone would like having these stylish women in their kitchen!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 55 mins |
| Servings: | 25 |
| Yield: | 25 squares |
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup butter
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
- 1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch square baking pan. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, white sugar, and cocoa powder. Cut in butter until the texture is mealy. Pat into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. In a saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips. Cook, stirring frequently until chips are melted and the mixture is smooth. Pour over the baked crust.
- Return to the oven, and bake for 15 minutes. Remove, and cool in the pan over a wire rack.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the confectioners’ sugar, butter, and cherry juice. Spread over the cooled filling in the pan. Melt semisweet chocolate in a small glass dish in the microwave, or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally until smooth. Place in a plastic bag or piping bag, cut the tip to 1/8 inch, and drizzle the chocolate over the bars in a back and forth motion to make stripes. Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 222 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 58 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These are REALLY good. I followed the exact recipe and then chilled for an hour. After that I cut them into .5 inch cubes. I keep them in the fridge and eat them cold!
I iced it with pink icing, to keep with my valentine theme:-) everyone looooves it!! Will definitely be making again, though it’s too sweet for me.
Waaaay too sweet for me…. I couldn’t have more than one bite. Also the crust didn’t really form properly, it was pretty crumbly making them hard to cut.
Awesome. I normally don’t care for icing, but the taste of the cherry juice blended so well with the rest of the square. I had no problems using 3 tbsp. of cherry juice like some others stated – consistency was perfect. The kids LOVED it.
VERY rich, but delicious. The middle layer is basically fudge. I thought the bottom layer was a little thick, hard, and dry but, other than that, it came out very good. I drizzled chocolate glaze on top rather than melted chocolate and ran a butter knife through to make a design. It was difficult to cut at first, but after I cut a few squares, the whole thing popped right out of the pan, so I placed it on a cutting board, which made it much easier to cut. I cut very small squares, because it’s so rich.
This recipe is FABULOUS! I made them for bridal showers and other get togethers. I even made them for a boy baby shower and dyed the icing blue and called them “blue babies”
These are a hit at all the bakesales!!! Thank you, I was running out of ideas.
Pink Ladies are easy to make. They are sweet even for me and I am a big sweet eater. These sure are pretty. For me, I prefer a brownie with chocolate frosting but these are good. Sure to satisfy a sweet tooth.
Oh man do you need a sweet tooth for these! They are SO SWEET, yet SO GOOD! One’s enough, (which is a good thing) at a time. After reading reviews I only used about 2 Tbs. of cherry juice and it made the icing perfect consistency. Yummy!
Made this for Breast Cancer Awareness day at work and they were gone before Noon! This felt a little out of my league at first but after finishing the recipe I am ready for more. Great for people wanting to try something new and great for beginners wanting to take the next step in baking (like myself)! Looking forward to making it again to show off for a different group.
These are different from the normal desserts, but super rich and I personally don’t think the flavors blend that well together – specifically the crust. If I made these again, I would add a tbs of brown sugar into the crust and also put in a slightly bigger pan. The middle layer is too thick!
Had no taste. Was not what I expected.
This dessert turned out very pretty. The icing wasn’t the right consistency. I made it a lot thicker then what the recipe called for by adding additional powdered sugar. Very rich…
I chose this recipe because I loved the colours and thought it would be a perfect way to use up my maraschino cherry juice. I did follow the recipe exactly, I chilled for about 60 minutes before cutting. I did find the cutting quite difficult, they just kept oozing at the side, and the chocolate constantly cracked. Personally I think it would be better to cut before drizzling with the chocolate, sure it would give a more professional finish. These are extremely sweet, you really do only need the smallest portion.
These were so good and so easy to make! I just melted the ounce of chocolate in the microwave, stirred til smooth and used the spoon to drizzle over top.
The cherry flavor was very mild. I wouldn’t make these again.
I’m rating 4/5 b/c I didn’t actually eat them, I’m fasting for Lent (no meat/dairy) but I made them for an office potluck and EVERYONE LOVES THEM! When I was making them I had to re read the instructions several times b/c I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right…but they d/n take long at all & everyone loves ’em! Thanks for sharing!
Wow… rich, fudge, cherry goodness. Don’t let the pictures deceive you, the little bite size squares are MORE THAN ENOUGH to satisfy a sweet tooth! I was dumb and made a double batch in a 9X13 in pan… it made waaaay too many. And they’re so rich they’re hard to get rid of! I had to use 2.5 TBSP of cherry juice. I followed the recipe otherwise. Very good! Will make again!
This was a fun, different recipe. I made it for my husband to bring to work on halloween when he dressed up as a Grease “Pink Lady.” I only put the 2 Tablespoons of cherry juice in the frosting. Interestingly kids said it was very cherry-y, but most adults just got a hint of cherry. They were very pretty and not hard to make. A little goes a long way.
My co-workers loved this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
So sweet