Blueberry Bars

One of my favorite fruit flavors for desserts is blueberry.  Kevin needed to bring a dish for a large school meeting so I thought a nice blueberry bar would do the trick.  I found this recipe online and decided to try it.


Typically, I use two main websites, Cooks.com and allrecipes.com.  My strategy for selecting recipe is to always  sort by ratings/reviews. That has generally worked very well and this time was no different. I will be using this recipe as a base recipe and try it with different fillings.


This produced a very moist cake layer with a nice crumb to it.  I hope you enjoy this recipe.

Blueberry Bars

1 cup butter or margarine, softened

1 ¾ cups sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 (21 ounce) can blueberry pie filling

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

GLAZE:

1 ¼ cups confectioners' sugar

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted

Directions

1.  In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. 

2.  Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture just until combined. 

3.  Spread half of the batter into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Spread with pie filling; sprinkle with nutmeg. Drop remaining batter by teaspoonfuls over the top.

4.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. 

5.  In a small bowl, combine the glaze ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over cooled bars.