Cookie Recipes
Marzipan Bars
Ingredients
Filling
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar, unsifted
- 1 1/2 cups blanched almonds, ground
- 1 egg white
- 2 tablespoons water
Crust
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, unsifted
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
Instructions
Filling
- Combine sugar and ground almonds and mix thoroughly.
- Add egg white and mix.
- Stir in water to thick consistency. Set aside.
Crust
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine flour, baking powder and sugar.
- Cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until evenly distributed.
- Mix vanilla extract with egg; stir into flour mixture. Set aside 3/4 cup dough.
- Press remaining dough evenly into a 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Spread marzipan over dough.
- Form remaining dough into 1/2 inch strips and arrange in a large lattice pattern over filling.
- Bake for 35 minutes.
- Cool completely before cutting into 36 bars (about 2 x 1 1/2 inches).
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
C&H Sugar, Inc.