Chocolate Amaretto Bars Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Break up the bars of chocolate into a medium size sauce pan. Add in the chopped butter.
• 2. Heat on low heat. Stir ithe chocolate when it begins to melt. Stir until is fully melted and smooth. Remove from heat.
• 3. While chocolate is melting. In a bowl. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Whisk and set aside.
• 4. In another bowl. Whisk sugar, eggs, and Amaretto together. Mix well. Stir in nuts if desired.
• 5. With a wire whisk. Whisk chocolate mixture quickly, a little at a time into egg mixture. Whisk together until fully blended.
• 6. Add flour mixture into chocolate egg mixture. A little at a time. Mix until fully combined. Dough will be very soft
• 7. Place bowl in freezer. Freeze until you can handle it and roll into small one inch balls.( about an hour) You may re-freeze dough in between batches to make handling easier.
• 8. Mix powdered sugar and cocoa together well.
• 9. Make 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls out of dough. Roll balls in cocoa powdered sugar mixture.
• 10. Place balls on parchment lined sheet pan. Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes. Remove from oven when cookies are cracked. Cookies will be very soft. Do not overbake. Let cookies cool completely on sheet pan. Do not remove cookies until they are fully cooled. Enjoy!

Steps:

• Crumble almond paste into a food processor; add sugar and pulse until evenly combined. Add egg whites and process until incorporated. Transfer mixture to a bowl. Sift together confectioners' sugar and cocoa; gradually add to almond mixture and mix well., Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° until tops are cracked, 17-20 minutes. Cool for 1 minute before removing from pans to wire racks. Store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• For crust:.
• Beat flour, butter and brown sugar in large bowl until crumbly.
• Press into greased 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
• Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• For Filling:.
• Beat eggs, corn syrup, sugar, liqueur or extract, butter and cornstarch, in medium bowl with wire whisk.
• Stir in almonds and 1 2/3 cups morsels.
• Pour and spread over hot crust.
• Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes or until center is set.
• Cool in pan to room temperature on wire rack.
• Take rest of morsels and melt in microwave or in double boiler on stove top and drizzle on top of bars.
• Let chocolate firm and bars cool and then cut into bars.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and brown sugar.
• Cut in butter until mixture forms fine crumbs.
• Reserve 1 cup crumb mixture for topping. Press remainder over bottom of ungreased 8 inch square baking pan. Bake for 12-15 minutes at 350 or until lightly browned.
• In mixer bowl, thoroughly cream together cream cheese and granulated sugar. Add egg, amaretto, and vanilla; beat well. Spread batter over partially baked crust.
• Combine almonds with reserved crumb mixture; sprinkle over batter.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool and cut into squares.