Linzer Bar

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 3/4 cups unsifted flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup raspberry jam or 1/2 cup preserves
• 2 tablespoons flour

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl stir together flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
• 2 with a pastry blender or two knives use scissor style, cut in butter or margarine until coarse crumbs form.
• 3 with a fork stir in corn syrup and egg just until mixed.
• 4 reserve 1/2 cup batter.
• 5 press remaining batter into a 9x9x2-inch baking pan.
• 6 spread with jam.
• 7 stir 2 tablespoons flour into the reserved batter.
• 8 if preparing a lattice add a couple tablespoons of water - one at a time - to make the dough easy to roll out. if you are dropping the dough by spoonfulls then just evenly scatter the top "crust" over the jam for a "spotty" look and bake.
• 9 on a floured surface roll out to 1/4-inch thickness.
• 10 cut into 1/4-inch wide strips.
• 11 lattice strips over jam.
• 12 bake in 375-degree oven 30 minutes, or until set. cool.
• 13 cut into bars. serving size is really up to you - cut into as many bars as you want.