Shortcake gems
16 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Flour |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Morton's Lite Salt |
| ¼ | cup | Fleischmanns Unsalted Margarine |
| 3 | tablespoons | Skim milk |
| ½ | teaspoon | Almond extract |
| 1 | large | Egg |
| ½ | cup | Preserves |
Directions
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder & salt. Cut in margarine. Combine milk, almond extract & egg. Add to flour mixture & stir just until moistened.
Press ½ of mixture into the bottom of an 8 inch square pan that has been coated with Pam. Bake at 400F for 5 minutes.
Spread the base with preserves. Drop remaining half of mixture by small spoonfuls evenly over preserves. Bake an additional 13-18 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired.
Per bar: 122 cal, 3⅕ g fat, 13 mg chol, 73mg sod.
Recipe by: Unknown
Posted to EAT-LF Digest by JusNeedlin@... on Nov 3, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.