Chocolate Cherry Squares

What could be better than chocolate and cherry together? Not a whole heck of a lot, in my books at least. These are a front runner for my favorite square, I think the lemon ones just come out ahead. Barely.

They were also a fun baking activity for my daughter and I, give her a butterknife, cutting board and cherries and she chopped till she couldn’t chop anymore.

Ingredients Needed:

Bottom Crust

1 1/4 cups of flour
1/2 cup of butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar

Middle Layer

2 large eggs
3/4 cup of brown sugar
3/4 cup of chopped up cherries, maraschino or glazed
1 cup of sweetened shredded coconut
3/4 cup of chocolate chips
2 tbsp of flour
1/2 tsp baking powder

Icing

1 1/2 cups of icing sugar
4 tbsp butter
1 1/2 – 2 tbsp of cream
1/4 tsp of almond extract

Get your slave labor started chopping those cherries.

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Mix your crust layers together, until they are a lovely crumbly mixture just waiting for a 9×9 pan.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes until slightly browned.

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Combine everything for the middle layer, then when the crust is done, pour it on top. So easy.

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Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes until it’s set in the middle and oh-so beautifully browned on top like below.

Cool it completely and then you can start the best part; the icing!

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Whip up those icing ingredients until fluffy and adjust the almond extract to your taste. I find the extract in the icing took these square from great to absolutely mouth-watering. The hint of cherry topped them off completely.

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Spread on the cooled squares and let it set. I always throw it in the fridge for a while before I cut the squares, it makes cutting them much neater.

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Be prepared to love these! Mike has declared these the best I have ever made, but really, he says that about everything sweet.

He really means it this time, I think. He wouldn’t take them into work, so usually when he hoards something jealously like that, it’s a favorite.

Chocolate Cherry Squares

Author: Karlynn Johnston

Recipe type: dessert,bar,square

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Serves: 8

Chocolate cherry squares with coconut, so tasty.

Ingredients

Bottom Crust
1¼ cups of flour
½ cup of butter
⅓ cup of brown sugar
Middle Layer
2 large eggs
¾ cup of brown sugar
¾ cup of chopped up cherries, maraschino or glazed
1 cup of sweetened shredded coconut
¾ cup of chocolate chips
2 tbsp of flour
½ tsp baking powder
Icing
1½ cups of icing sugar
4 tbsp butter
1½ – 2 tbsp of cream
¼ tsp of almond extract

Instructions

Start chopping those cherries.
Mix your crust layers together, until they are a lovely crumbly mixture just waiting for a 9×9 pan.
Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes until slightly browned.
Combine everything for the middle layer, then when the crust is done, pour it on top.
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes until it’s set in the middle and oh-so beautifully browned on top like below.
Cool it completely and then you can start the best part; the icing!
Whip up those icing ingredients until fluffy and adjust the almond extract to your taste.
Spread on the cooled squares and let it set. I always throw it in the fridge for a while before I cut the squares, it makes cutting them much neater.

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4 comments

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Rebecca

WOW!! Amazing. Took my frown and turned it upside down! Thanks so much for bringing them in. You do know though, that we will be requesting them a lot now. DELICIOUS!

Charlynn

This looks so good, as do all of your other baking recipes! Now, when are you blogging about the secret to staying at a healthy weight while you cook all of these delicious things? :)

Karlynn

a) take them into work so the girls there hate you but love you at the same time b) send them into Mike's work to the men there who don't care about the calories they eat. And who eat anything. 3) take them to the teachers at school who appreciate the sugar rush since they are so stressed out It works! I've actually dropped weight since spring even with taste testing. Make it, enjoy it, send the rest to someone who appreciates it.