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Raspberry Pineapple Cheese Bars
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup crushed vanilla wafer crumbs
1/2 cup finely minced walnuts
1-8 ounce crushed pineapple
1-8 ounce raspberry cream cheese spread, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 JUMBO egg
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup +/- shredded coconut

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat butter and brown sugar until well blended.
• Add flour, vanilla cookie crumbs and walnuts and mix until well blended.
• Spray the bottom of 9×9 baking dish with PURE.
• Press cookie crumb mixture into the bottom.
• Bake 10 minutes. Cool.
• Drain pineapple reserving the juice.
• Beat cream cheese and pineapple juice together until smooth. Add sugar and egg and beat again until smooth.
• Fold in the pineapple.
• Pour over the crust.
• Sprinkle with the coconut.
• Bake 20-22 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Cut into bars.