COOKIES & TREATS/ CHOCOLATE CHERRY BARS

              BY JOAN RICKETTS LOCKE

Ingredients:

One (1) package Devils Food Cake Mix

One (1) 21 oz. can cherry pie filling

1/4 cup whiskey

2 eggs, beaten

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease (not

oil) and flour 15"x10" baking pan.  In a 

large bowl, combine first 4 ingredients.

By hand, stir until well mixed.  Pour into

a prepared pan.  Bake at 350 degrees

for about 25 to 30 minutes.

Frosting:

1 cup sugar

5 tbsp. margarine (or butter)

1/3 cup milk

6 oz. (1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips

In small saucepan, combine sugar, margarine

and milk.  Boil, stirring constantly for one (1)

minute.  Remove from heat and stir in chocolate

chips until smooth.  Pour over warm bars.  

Makes about 3 dozen.

"Christmas 1995, I made these two weeks before Christmas and 

froze them.  When I told Momma that Wayne tried

them out frozen and liked them, well so did she.

Momma ate them frozen every year after that!"  

"Daddy loves them warm, before I put the icing on."

These moist, chocolate cherry goodies have become a family favorite!

Photo: Momma and Joanie, June 1999

at Joan's home in Midland, VA. This photo

was taken on Angela Locke's High School

Graduation Day.