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Apricot Squares Recipe

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This recipe for Apricot Squares is from Fifty Years in the Kitchen by Marj Moritz, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 C. sugar
¾ C. margarine (melted)
2 C. flour
1 egg
1½ tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 C. coconut
½ C. chopped walnuts
1 - 12 oz. jar apricot preserves
optional: powdered sugar in shaker
Directions:
Directions:
1, Cream together sugar and margarine; add flour, egg, vanilla & baking powder.
2. Mix in nuts and coconut.
3. Spread ½ the dough into a well greased 9 X 13 inch baking pan.
4. Spread the preserves over dough and pat the remaining dough on top.
5. Bake 30-40 minutes in a preheated 350º oven.
6. Cool complete on a cooling rack.
7. Optional: sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar after cooled.

NOTE: If a glass baking pan is used, oven temperature should be set at 300º.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Such a totally yummy dessert bar! I suppose that you could substitute the apricot preserves with your favorite fruit preserve. I just never have, because these are just right!

 

 

 

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