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Cherry: Cherry Chewbilees

Source of Recipe

Debra Collins


List of Ingredients

1 cup walnut pieces
16 ounces cream cheese
1 1/4 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter Crisco
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup flake coconut
1 21 ounce can cherry pie filling


Recipe

Heat oven to 350ºF. Combine flour and brown sugar. Cut in Butter Crisco until fine crumbs form. Add 1/2 C. finely chopped nuts and coconut. Mix well. Remove 1/2 C. Press remaining crumbs in bottom of grease 13x9 pan. Bake at 350ºF for 12-15 minutes. Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and vanilla at medium speed. When smooth, spread over crust. Return to oven; bake 15 minutes. Spread cherry pie filling over cheese layer. Mix 1/2 C. coarsely chopped nuts with reserved crumbs. Sprinkle over cherries. Bake 15 minutes. Cool. Refrigerate several hours. Cut into 2"x1 1/2" bars. 36 bars.