Cherry Stacks (#)

Title:
Cherry Stacks (#)

Yield:
108 Servings

Categories:
Basic
mixes,
Cakes,
Desserts,
Holidays




Ingredients:





     3    Recipes Basic Holiday


          -Cookies, see below






 Grease two 13x9x2" pan; line with waxed paper; greased paper. Prepare


 double recipe Basic Holiday Cookie dough, with the following changes:


 Substitute 1 tsp. almond extract for vanilla; beat 1/2 cup almond paste


 with butter, margarine and sugar; add 1/4 cup milk with egg. Mix in red


 foold coloring, 1/2 cup finely chopped glaceed cherries. Spread half the


 batter in each pan. Bake at 350 F. oven for 15 minutes. Let cool in pans on


 rack 10 minutes. Carefully remove from pans; peel off paper. Cool.


 


 Prepare another batch of Basic Holiday Cookie dough, with following


 changes: Substitute 1/2 tsp. almond extract for vanilla; beat 1/4 cup


 almond apste with butter, margarine and sugar; stir 2 Tbsp. milk into


 batter. Spread as abov in one prepared 13x9x2" pan. Bake; cool as above.


 Place one pink cake on bkaing sheet. Spread top with 1/4 cup strained


 apricot preserves. Top with white cake. Spread with 1/4 cup strained


 apricot preserves. Top with remaining pink layer. Weigh down overnight.


 Melt 3 ounces semisweet chocolate. Spread over top. Let stand to harden.


 Cut into 1 inch squares. Makes about 9 dozen MC formatting by


 bobbi744@sojourn.com


 


 NOTES : (#) All cookies or cakes made with the Basic Holiday Cookies mix


 are marked  in this way for ease in finding in cookbook.


 Recipe by: Family Circle Magazine, 11-18-97


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #873 by Roberta Banghart


 
on Oct 28, 1997