Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 400 gr icing sugar
- 400 gr graham wafer crumbs
- 170 gr butter
- 80 gr coconut
- 60 gr almonds
- 55 gr semisweet chocolate
- 50 gr sugar
- 45 gr maraschino cherries
- 28 gr cocoa
- 16 ml cherry juice
- 14 gr butter
- 4 gr vanilla
BASE: Cook butter, sugar, cocoa, vanilla & egg in saucepan over low heat heat, stirring constantly until custard begins to thicken. Remove from heat and stir in coconut, crumbs and almonds. Pat firmly into a greased 9 pan inch square pan. Chill for 1 hour. FILLING: Cream butter, cherry juice and extract. Gradually beat in icing sugar to a make a smooth spreading consistency. Stir in cherries. Spread over base and chill until firm. TOP: Heat chocolate and butter, stirring until smoothly melted. Drizzle chocolate over filling. Chill. Cut into bars. YIELD: 30 BARS
