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Recipe by: Lisa Prince

Berry Bars

This recipe would also be delicious with a little of the strawberry sauce from the blintz and some vanilla ice cream.

Servings: 16
Cook Time: Prep Time: 30 minutes; Total Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Meal Type: Dessert
NC Ingredients: Blueberries, Strawberries

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Ingredients

Cake:
3/4
cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1/2
teaspoon baking powder
1/4
teaspoon salt
1/2
cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1
cup confectioners’ sugar
2
large eggs
1/2
teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Fruit:
1/4
lb. NC blueberries
1/4
lb. NC strawberries cut into bite size pieces
1
tablespoon light-brown sugar
1/4
cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
Streusel:
6
tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, plus room-temperature butter for pan
1
cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled) plus more for pan
1/2
cup packed light-brown sugar
1/4
teaspoon salt

Directions

Cake:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Butter an 8-inch square pan. Line with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two sides.  Butter and flour parchment and pan, tapping out excess flour.

Make cake layer: In a medium bowl, whisk ¾ cup flour, baking powder, and salt.  In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and confectioners’ sugar until light and fluffy: beat in eggs, one at a time.  With mixer on low, beat in vanilla, then flour mixture.  Spread batter in prepared pan.

Fruit:

Make fruit layer: In a medium bowl, combine fruit, brown sugar, and ¼ cup flour.  Sprinkle cake layer with fruit.

Streusel:

Make streusel layer: Whisk together butter, brown sugar, and salt.  Add flour and mix with a fork.  Refrigerate until mixture crumbles with a fork and is ready to use.  Sprinkle fruit layer with streusel.

Bake cake until golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 40-45 minutes.  Let cool completely in pan. Using paper overhang, lift cake from pan.  Cut into 16 bars.

 
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