Red Raspberry Chocolate Bars

Courtesy of Hershey's Easy Baking.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 18
• Yields: 36 bars

Ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1  cup sugar
• 3⁄4 cup pecans or 3⁄4 cup  almonds, finely chopped
• 1  egg, beaten
• 1  cup butter, cold
• 12  ounces  raspberry jam, seedless
• 1 2⁄3 cups  milk chocolate chips

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease 9 x 13 baking pan.
3. Stir together flour, sugar, pecans (or almonds) and egg in a large bowl.
4. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside 1 1/2 cups crumb mixture.
5. Press remaining crumb mixture on bottom of prepared pan.
6. Stir jam to soften; carefully spread over crumb mixture.
7. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
8. Crumble remaining crumb mixture evenly over top.
9. Bake 40-45 minutes or until lightly browned.
10. Cool completely in pan on wire rack; cut into bars.