Spumoni Bars

Name: Spumoni Bars
Yield: Makes 4 dozen cookies
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1/4 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 2/3 cup (4⅔ ounces), sugar; 3 , large egg yolks; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 12 , Maraschino cherries, drained, stemmed, and chopped fine; 1/4 cup, walnuts, toasted and chopped fine; 1/4 cup, semisweet chocolate chips, melted and slightly cooled

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

Italian

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SERVESMakes 4 dozen cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes chilling and 25 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These Spumoni Bars look like they come from a single dough at first, but it is actually three different varieties combined into one. A rolling pin merges the different ropes of dough into one coherent cookie. Slightly chilling the doughs ma...

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