Recipe For Cooking Cherry Eggnog Bars

Toaster Oven Cookies :: Bar Cookies

Cherry Eggnog Bars

2/3 C. margarine or butter
2 1/4 C. flour
1 C. sugar
2/3 C. milk
2 eggs
2 tea. baking powder
1/2 tea. ground nutmeg
1/4 tea. salt
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring or 1/4 tea. rum flavoring
1 (10 oz.) jar maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
1/2 C. chopped pecans
3/4 C. sifted powderedsugar
3 to 4 tea. milk

Beat margarine or butter with an electric mixer on med. to high speed 30 seconds. Add 1 C. of the flour, the sugar, 2/3 C. milk, eggs, baking powder, nutmeg, salt and vanilla extract or rum flavoring. Beat 1 min. at med. speed. Beat in remaining flour at low speed. Stir in cherries and pecans. Spread in a greased 15 x 10 x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F about 25 min. Cool pan on a wire rack.

Combine powderedsugar and enough of the 3 to 4 tea. milk to make of drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cookies. Cut into bars.

Makes 48.