[Liz]

MARZIPAN BARS / Makes 5 dozen. Good anytime, nice for the holidays.

Ing 1/2 c butter, 1/2 c light br/sugar 1 egg yolk 1 tsp vanilla 2 c flour 1/2 tsp b/soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 c milk 1 c red raspberry preserves or jelly 8 oz can almond paste, crumbled, sugared almond crumbs

Method Beat butter fluffy; beat in sugar, egg yolk, vanilla. Mix in combined flour, b/soda, salt; mix in milk. Spread evenly in greased jelly roll pan; spread with preserves. Spread with almond paste. Bake light brown 350 deg 35 min. Cool in pan on wire rack. Top with sugared almond crumbs.

Vary Spread with chocolate icing.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Those bars look great! Almond Paste. Discovered these when I was stationed in Germany in the 80's. Luckily I weighed about 100 pounds at the time so I COULD eat the whole box and not gain a pound, LOL! There is one store locally that I know of that sells them. I do NOT want to get into the habbit of ordering them on-line...