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Jammy Fantasia Bars

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
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  • Crust:
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  • 1 1/2 cups quick rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 3/4 cup Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
  • or 3/4 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 2 tbsps. water
  • 1 cup Smucker's® Orchard's Finest® Michigan Red Tart Cherry Preserves
  • or 1 cup Smucker's® Orchard's Finest® Northwoods Blueberry Preserves
  • Frosting:
  • 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp. plus 1/2 tsp. milk
  • 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. HEAT oven to 375 degrees F. Combine flour, oats, brown sugar and baking soda in medium bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Reserve 1 3/4 cups of mixture. Set aside.
  2. DRIZZLE water over remaining crumbs. Toss to mix. Press firmly into ungreased 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Spread preserves over crust. Sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Pat gently.
  3. BAKE 5 to 30 minutes. Cool in pan.
  4. COMBINE powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Stir well. Drizzle over top. Cut into triangles or 2 x 1 1/2-inch bars.

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