Northwest Pecan Treats

Adapted from: Christmas Cookie Magazine
Yield: 4 dozen

Ingredients:
3 cups flour
½ cup sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 cup cold butter
4 slightly beaten eggs
1 ¼ cups dark-color corn syrup
1 ¼ cups sugar
3 TB butter, melted
2 tsp. vanilla
2 ½ cups chopped pecans
1/3 cups dried cherries or cranberries, snipped (I bump this up to about 1 cup)

Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 15x10x1 inch baking sheet with foil, extending foil over sides of pan. Grease foil. Set aside.

In large bowl, combine flour, ½ c. sugar, and salt. Using pastry blender, cut 1 cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press mix evenly into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, whisk eggs, corn syrup, 1 ¼ cups sugar, 3 TB butter, and vanilla until combined.

Sprinkle pecans and dried cherries over hot crust. Slowly pour egg mixture over all. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Lift baked mixture from pan using foil. Remove foil. Cut into bars.

The trick to these is having the right size pan.