Easy Cherry Pie Cake Bars
These Cherry Pie Bars have a heavenly cake base, juicy cherries, and the perfect glaze icing drizzled on top.
Pie and Cake in One Dessert Bar
These adorable Cherry Pie Bars are summer sweetness in a bite. The cake base is heavenly. It is not crumbly; it slices extremely well, which is sometimes not the case when I make cherry pies.
After about 20 minutes, you may want to add a piece of tin foil over the top of the baking pan to keep the top nice and light-colored.
Cherry Pie Cake Bars Recipe
These Cherry Pie Bars have a heavenly cake base, juicy cherries, and the perfect glaze icing drizzled on top.
Ingredients
For the bars:
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp almond extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 21 oz cherry pie filling
For the glaze:
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 1 Tbsp. milk
Instructions
- Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Beat in extracts.
- In a separate bowl combine flour and salt. Add to the creamed mixture. Mix until combined.
- Grease a 8x8-inch pan. Spread 1 1/2 cups batter into bottom of the pan. Spread with pie filling. Drop remaining batter on top of pie filling.
- Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick comes clean. Cool on wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients and drizzle over the cooled bars.
Video
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 245kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 48mg | Sodium: 178mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 380IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 0.4mg
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51 Comments on “Easy Cherry Pie Cake Bars”
Oh my those look good! thanks for the post.
🙂
Yummy, yummy and my husband just LOVES anything cherry!
This is how I am! Even when I was a kid. 🙂
These look delicious. I’m always looking for non-chocolate desserts because my husband is allergic. These would be fun to try with different pie fillings.
Awesome! Let us know if you try it!
This looks tasty! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you like it. 🙂
How Awesome this sounds!!!!!
I Love anything with cherries.
Me too, ha!
In the oven now. very easy to make can’t wait to try.
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Making these for a wedding. Im hoping they taste as good as the pic
This is the second time making these cherry pie bars since I pinned the recipe. My family loves them. Today I made these in anticipation of company. Basic ingredients and I always keep cherry pie filling on hand. So easy and quick. My friend asked for the recipe too as she is going to make them for Valentine’s day.
This makes my heart so very happy!
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I tried these today, they were so good!! Thanks for sharing!
So glad to hear that!
This is a perfect recipe! I just made 6 large batches of it for a group of 100 and they were such a hit! Thanks!
I’m so glad you like them!
I know these are tasty because it is the same recipe as Taste of Home. One minor difference in the sugar amount.
These are absolutely delicious. I have made them and my whole family loves them. In fact I have to double the recipe because everyone can’t get enough of them.
This makes me so happy!
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Can you double this recipe for a 9×13 in.pan??I How long would you bake it for?
I’ve never tried it, but you could certainly try it for the same time.
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Made these for our Christmas party. They were a hit! Reminded us of a name brand Cherry turnover. 5*
Yes! So glad you liked it. 🙂
These look great and definitely easy. However, if I wanted to TRY to make it even easier, do you think a box of cake mix would work?
I don’t believe it would work. I did make them.The “cake” part is dense buy not dry, reminds me of a lemon bar crust, but better. Those are my husband and I’s opinions.
I thought these were terrible, were gooey and unappealing.
Is this recipe correct? What helps the batter rise? Thought recipe may be missing baking powder? Thanks.
I made these last week for a sweet treat for my husband and they were really delicious! I over baked them a bit and was afraid that they would be dry. However, the cherry soaked into the crust overnight and really saved me. He actually hoarded them to take to work each day in his lunch. They are great and I will certainly make them again…thank you for sharing the recipe!
Oh, yay! I’m so happy you enjoyed them!!!
These are super awesome! Everyone loves them. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I’m so happy to hear that!
Very disappointed. I thought these were bland, at best.
Thanks for sharing it. I would love to make this for me.
It looks really awesome.
This dessert is so tasty and easy to make and I just had to try it!!! Thanks for the video that teaches a visual too it helped me so much❤️
It’s my pleasure! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
What is the nutrition value please
What is the nutritional value for 1 piece please
I’m not sure, so sorry.
Does this freeze well after made
I’m a believer that everything freezes well! I’ve never tried it with this particular recipe, though!
used fresh sour cherries and created a cherry pie filing. Looks great!!
This looks tasty! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for commenting!
This was delicious! The only thing I changed was that I happen to have made and froze some cherry compote earlier this summer. I used 2 cups of that in place of the pie filling. It was delicious! I am going to use this cake base recipe for more fruit compote desserts.
Thanks for sharing such a nice recipe.
its really so nice.