Recipe: Treasure Bars [edit]

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Edited by: Tom Bilcze, Sheri, Barnaby Dorfman, Sarah Donnell

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[edit] Ingredients

	Bars:
2	cups flour
½	cup brown sugar
1 ¼	teaspoons baking powder
½	teaspoon salt
½	cup margarine
¾	cup milk
1	teaspoon vanilla
2	eggs
1	cup chocolate chips
1	cup maraschino cherries (drained and chopped)
1	cup salted peanuts (chopped)
	Icing:
2	cups confectioners’ sugar
2	tablespoons margarine (softened)
2	tablespoons milk
½	teaspoon vanilla
	Glaze:
½	square melted baker’s chocolate

[edit] Preparation

Step 1	Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a jelly roll pan.
Step 2	Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, margarine, milk, vanilla and eggs unrtil thoroughly mixed.
Step 3	Stir in chocolate chips, maraschino cherries, and salted peanuts.
Step 4	Spread in the greased pan and bake 25-30 minutes.
Step 5	Prepare icing by mixing confectioners’ sugar, margarine, milk and vanilla until smooth and creamy.
Step 6	Spread icing over warm bars. Drizzle melted chocolate. Cool and cut into bars.
Step 7	Makes 3 dozen. Do not freeze, store in an airtight container.

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[edit] About Treasure Bars

Here is the recipe for my all-time favorite bar cookie recipe. I first tasted this cookie about 12 years ago. Bev, the ultimate church lady, made these super delicious bars for a church function. You know the type; retired older widow who cooks up a storm with recipes that are out of this world. I immediately fell in love with this cookie.

Bev would not share this recipe. I had asked her friends. They told me that she never shared the recipe. Apparently, I was not the only one enamored with the glorious cookie. About 5 years ago, Bev decided it was time to pass on her recipes. She gave me this one knowing my love of the cookie. She always had a Ziploc bag of them for me in church when she made them.

This recipe is in honor of Bev. I love her so and her cooking even more! She loves her church and is a devoted parishioner who gives herself selfishly to the church. I hope that you enjoy this cookie as much as I do.