Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee
with these blackberry jam bars.
Blackberry
Tea Bars
- 3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 large egg whites
3/4 teaspoon almond extract
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour, sifted
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup blackberry jam*
- Preheat oven to 350°F
(175°C). Spray 9 x 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
- In large bowl, use electric
mixer at medium speed to beat margarine, sugar, and egg whites.
Blend in, on low speed, almond extract, flour, salt and baking
soda. Do not overbeat.
- Spread dough in pan. Smooth
top of dough with rubber spatula. Lightly run spatula over the
top of dough to make 7 or 8 crisscrossing diagonal grooves. Fill
grooves with jam or marmalade.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes
until top is firm and edges begin to brown. Cool and refill grooves
with jam. Cut into bars.
Makes 28 bars.
* Substitute orange marmalade
for blackberry jam to make marmalade bars.
Recipe provided courtesy
of The Sugar Association, Inc.
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