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Applesauce Bars Recipe


Applesauce Bars Recipe
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A delightful dessert or snack. This is a bar rendition of apple pie. You can also serve with vanilla ice cream on top.

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Ingredients
  • Ingredients:
  • For the Pastry:
  • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp. Ground cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup low-fat cream cheese softened and cut up
  • ¼ cup low-fat milk
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • For the Filling:
  • 1can ( 20oz ) crushed pineapple unsweetened in it's own juice drained
  • 1 ½ cups unsweetened applesauce
  • ½ tsp. Ground cinnamon
  • Confectioners' sugar for garnish

Directions
  1. 1 To prepare pastry, in a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, and cinnamon. Mix well. Using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut cream cheese into flour mixture until coarse crumbs form. Combine milk and egg yolk.
  2. 2 Add milk mixture to dry ingredients tossing with fork until a dough forms. Divide dough in half. Shape each half into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap; chill 1 hour.
  3. 3 Preheat oven to 350º. To prepare filling, combine pineapple, applesauce, and cinnamon.
  4. 4 On a floured surface, roll 1 dough half into an 11 inch square. Fit dough into an 8 inch square baking dish; spread filling over top. Roll remaining dough into a 9 inch square. Cut into ¾ inch wide strips. Arrange strips over filling. Trim excess dough.
  5. 5 Bake until golden, about 45 minutes. Place on a wire rack and cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Now after cooled cut into 9 bars and place on a serving platter.

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Ohhhhh yummmm


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