Here’s a delicious, easy-to-make recipe for cherry pie bars—all the flavor of pie, but simpler and perfect for slicing and sharing.
🍒 Cherry Pie Bars
🛒 Ingredients (9×13 pan)
Crust & topping:
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
Filling:
- 1 can (about 500–600g) cherry pie filling
👉 or homemade using Cherries
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven: 175°C (350°F).
- Cream butter & sugar: Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs & vanilla: Mix until smooth.
- Add dry ingredients: Stir in flour and salt to form a soft dough.
- Form crust: Spread about 2/3 of the dough evenly into a greased 9×13 pan.
- Add filling: Spread cherry filling over the base.
- Top layer: Drop spoonfuls of the remaining dough over the cherries (don’t worry about covering completely).
- Bake: 35–40 minutes, until golden brown.
- Cool completely before slicing into bars.
🍯 Optional Glaze (extra delicious)
Mix:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2–3 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla
Drizzle over cooled bars.
💡 Tips
- Let them cool fully—they firm up as they set
- Slightly warm bars + vanilla ice cream = 🔥
- You can swap cherries for blueberry or strawberry filling
If you want, I can give you a from-scratch cherry filling recipe (no canned filling)—it tastes much better and is easy to make.
