Neapolitan Squares
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
36 bars
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, melted
- 1⁄2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups medium grind coconut
- 11 ounces sweetened condensed milk
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
- 3 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
directions
- Bottom Layer: Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Combine first four ingredients.
- Press into a greased 9"X9" pan with greased sides.
- Bake for 10 minute.
- Second layer: Combine coconut and condensed milk.
- Spread over bottom layer.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a slight tinge of light brown begins to show on edges.
- Cool before frosting.
- Icing: Beat icing sugar, remaining butter and cherry juice together.
- You may need more juice to make it soft enough to spread.
- Spread over cooled bars.
- Cover tightly and store at least one day to soften.
- Can be use the same day as baked but will be more difficult to cut.
- Yield is 36 bars.
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- If you do not have cherry juice, use water with a bit of red food colouring with 1/4 tsp cherry or almond flavouring.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Boxerwing
London, Ontario
I work as a part-time nurse in our city's burn unit. In my spare time, I really enjoy browsing cookbooks, cooking magazines, and the web for recipes. I am always looking for new ways to combine common ingredients to mix things up a bit. I try to avoid recipes that call for bizarre or hard-to-get ingredients or require a special kitchen widget I will only use once. If someone were to give me something unusual, I certainly would give it a try! However, my husband and I are adventurous diners and are always willing to try something new at least twice (in case there was a problem the first time!) We enjoy everything from German to Japanese; we want to try Vietnamese next.
My husband and I own a Gold Wing motorcycle and love to travel in the warmer months. We also have three dogs: Roxy, who is a rather large (42 lb.) fox terrier cross (shown above, with me!), Shadow, who is pure-bred reverse-brindle boxer, and Maggie, a brindle boxer. They love it when "Mom" cooks because they know something yummy inevitably hits the floor!