Raspberry Meringue Pie - Bars
From grumpybaker 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This desert is more like a pie then anything else with it's thick cookie like crust. which I found in a Taste Of Home contest winning recipe. I used raspberry pie filling instead of apricot and my own meringue recipe. Read more Really any fruit pie filling should work with this recipe as well. See less
Ingredients
- ****** Pie - Bar Mix ****** shopping list
- 3 cups all purpose flour shopping list
- ½ cup sugar shopping list
- 1 cup cold butter - cubed shopping list
- 4 egg yolks (save the whites) shopping list
- 1 tsp. vanilla shopping list
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- 1 (21oz) can of raspberry pie filling shopping list
- ****** Meringue ******* shopping list
- 4 egg whites shopping list
- ½ tsp. Cream of Tarter shopping list
- ½ cup sugar shopping list
- ½ cup chopped pecans shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Coat a 10x15 baking dish with Crisco & flour spray
- In a large bowl combine the flour, ½ cup sugar and the cubed butter
- Cut the butter in until crumbly.
- Add the vanilla and the egg yolks
- Blend well by hand leaving small chunks of butter through out.
- Press but not to hard the pie-bar mixture evenly into the oiled cooking dish.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes
- Note: Make the Meringue during the last 10 min. of this baking time.
- To make the Meringur place the egg whites into a mixer bowl and beat at med/high until soft peaks form.
- Add the Cream of tarter and beat at high speed for about a minute.
- Add the ½ cup sugar one tablespoon at a time.
- Continue to beat at high speed until stiff glossy peaks form.
- Spread the raspberry pie filling over the top of the baked pie-bar mixture.
- Pile the meringue on top of the rasberry pie filling, spread and seal the meringue to the edges of the baking dish.
- Sprinkle the pecans evenly over the Meringue.
- Bake for approx. 25-30 minutes, the meringue will be lightly browned.
- Remove and cool on a rack.
- Cut into serving size bars.
- Best served warm
- Keep the leftover desert in the refrigerator, I suggest that you microwave a few seconds to warm it back up.
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