Spiced fruit bars

24 bars

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup C and H Golden Brown Sugar (firmly packed)
⅓ cup Butter or margarine
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1½ cup All-purpose flour
½ cup C and H Powdered Sugar unsifted
1 teaspoon Baking powder
¼ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Nutmeg
¼ teaspoon Cloves
½ cup Dried glace fruit
2 teaspoons Water

Directions

POWDERED SUGAR GLAZE

Cream together sugar and butter. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Fold in glace fruit. Spread batter in greased 11 x 7-inch pan. Bake in 350 degree oven 25 minutes. While still warm, spread with Glaze. Cut into 24 bars.

Powdered Sugar Glaze: Combine ½ cup unsifted C and H Powdered Sugar with 2 teaspoons water.

Reprinted with permission from: Bar Cookies from the C and H Sugar Kitchen by Jean Porter Electronic format by Karen Mintzias

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