Pineapple Right Side Up Cookie Bars Food

PINEAPPLE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease your 9 x 13 baking pan with butter or use non-stick cooking spray.

RIGHT SIDE UP PINEAPPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Bake cake according to pkg. directions in a 13x9 pan.
• In a small saucepan combine the undrained pineapple and brown sugar over medium-high heat.
• Boil for 5 minutes, reducing heat if necessary--DO NOT LET SUGAR MIXTURE BURN--stirring constantly.
• Pour this mixture over warm cake and let cool.
• Meanwhile, prepare the instant pudding per pkg.
• directions with the 2 cups of milk; add the softened cream cheese to the prepared pudding and blend well.
• Pour this over top of cooled cake.
• Evenly place banana slices over the top of the cake, if desired.
• Top with Cool Whip, covering bananas completely.
• Sprinkle with pecans then sprinkle with coconut.
• Decorate with maraschino cherries.
• Refrigerate any leftover cake.

PINEAPPLE RIGHT-SIDE-UP COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Dump the pineapple in a strainer and let it drain while you cream the butter and sugar.
• Add the flour and mix well. (you can do this in a food processor with hard butter cut into chunks and the steel blade).
• Spread mixture out in a greased 9x13 inch pan and press it down evenly with your hands.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven, but do not turn the oven off.
• Mix the eggs with sugar.
• Add pineapple concentrate and drained pineapple, mix.
• Add salt and baking powder and stir it all up.
• Add the flour and mix thoroughly. It will be runny, it will set in the oven.
• Pour this mixture on top of the pan you just baked and stick it back in the oven.
• Bake at 350 degrees for another 45-50 minutes.
• Remove from oven and cool thoroughly.
• Sprinkle with a little powdered sugar and cut into brownie-sized bars.