I was able to find the recipe in one of my other Grandmother’s old cookbooks. You know that a recipe is well-loved when it’s pages are stained and smudged. Just look at these pages as proof:
You might notice that the original recipe did not call for cherries, however, adding cherries was my Grandmother’s special touch. I love them with cherries in them. But you can leave them out if you wish. I also frosted these bars and garnished the bars with a cherry to give them a fun look, but we always ate them without frosting and the extra cherry on top.
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon sugar plus 1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 eggs
2 cups coconut
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 14 oz. can crushed pineapple or pineapple tidbits, drained well
1/4 cup maraschino cherries, chopped
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter bottom of 8×8 pan.
2. Cream together 1 tablespoon butter and tablespoon of sugar. Add flour and baking soda.
3. In small bowl, whisk together 3 eggs with fork.
4. Add half of egg mixture to flour mixture. Mix well and spread in bottom of 8×8 pan.
5. Spread drained pineapple on top of flour mixture. Sprinkle cherries on top of pineapple.
5. Mix together 1 cup sugar, 2 cups coconut, remaining egg mixture and 1 tablespoon melted butter. Spread with spatula over pineapple & cherry mixture.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes and coconut layer is lightly browned.
7. Allow to cool for several hours in pan before cutting into squares. Frost if desired.
These lovely gooey bars are still one of my favorites. I had to stop myself after eating just one!
Hi! These bars look DELISH!!! (How can you go wrong with a tried-and-true-Gramma's-recipe that has coconut AND pineapple!!) Can I ask what you frosted them with?
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Looks yummers!! I love how you made it look so colorful with the plate and doily. So sweet!!!
xoxo,
Kim
These look amazing, Angie! I can see why you enjoyed them so much growing up. Were you able to share any of your batch with Grandma? I bet she would love to taste them again.
Oh it looks amazing!! SOO delicious. And cookbooks that are nice and stained like that – you know they have some delicious recipes in them and that they've been used over and over.
I LOVE your blog!
Oh boy…a stained recipe is ALWAYS a good sign! They look delicious! Would love to have you share this over at my link party going on! New facebook follower!
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I think I'm going to make these soon–yum! I love pineapple and there aren't enough recipes out there. (found you at tidy mom). Love grandma's worn recipe!
p.s. trying to pin from your post and it isn't working…
What a treasure!!!!!!! Oh and goodness it looks YUMMY!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer… From Dream To Reality! I’m looking forward to seeing your next creation tomorrow evening!
Yum! What a refreshing treat- can't wait to try it!
Love that cookbook – definitely tried-and-true! Your bars look delicious.
Oh, I love that stained recipe….
look's yum!
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These look delicious Angie! Thanks so much for linking up to Monday Funday! xoxo – Cheryl from That's What Che Said…
Thank you so much for sharing your Grandma's recipe. Would you mind also posting the frosting recipe, so I can TRY to make mine look/taste exactly like yours! Beautiful!
After a funeral today when I bit into a square and was immediately transported back many decades I knew that my mother must have made the same squares. I was delighted to discover that the squares were made by a lady who lives across the road from me. She promised to write down the recipe but I thought I would do a bit of googling first. I smiled when I saw the Acadia baking powder on your grandmother’s recipe. I suspect that my Mom made them from a recipe in book from a Halifax church and my neighbour is a life long resident of Hants County.