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Chocolate Cherry HiFi Buddy Bars—Prototype 1:
Given that chocolate and cherry are a popular Valentine's Day combination,
let's make some HiFi Buddies for this romantic holiday. This particular
recipe uses cherry butter, a pasty-textured cherry spread available (at
least as of this batch's production) at Whole Foods Market.
This recipe is based mainly on Prototype 8 of the chocolate peanut butter
bars. However, the cherry butter directly replaces the peanut butter. Due to
exchanging this peanut butter for a sweeter ingredient, the sugar is omitted
from the filling as well. The details are as follows:
Crust:
6 oz. melted, semi-sweet chocolate
2 oz. cherry butter (combine quickly with the chocolate above while it is
still melted, and blend in the next two ingredients shortly afterward)
3/4 cup sugar
16 oz. whipped lowfat cottage cheese
1 tbsp. skim milk
1 teaspoon vanilla (next to last ingredient here!)
8.8 oz. Bran Buds, ground up
Filling:
6 oz. melted, white chocolate
2 oz. cherry butter
1 teaspoon vanilla (last ingredient here!)
Press the crust mixture into a 9" x 9" wax-paper-lined pan. Firm
it up in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or freezer for 10 minutes.
Remove the pan from whatever cooler was used, and add the cherry filling on
top of the crust layer. Tip: if the filling is stiff, microwave it a little
to soften, before it gets put on the crust (this is better than the broiler
heat approach).
Place the pan in the refrigerator. Chill until the top filling is almost
completely firm, about 60 to 90 minutes, then cut into bars. Return these to
the refrigerator, and chill until fully firm.
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