You know how sometimes you have an idea? An idea for a recipe that you know is going to work no matter what? Or maybe you just think I’m crazy because you don’t really have ideas like that… and you just like to find recipes on the internet and try them out and hope that they work. You’ll have to excuse my brain… which is on overdrive 100% of the time trying to figure out what to bake next. The peaches in my head told me they’d be good with raspberries in a pie-sort-of-dessert. And that’s where the idea for these Peach and Raspberry Pie Bars comes from. This all happened one morning on the treadmill, by the way (the idea, that is). See? I told you I might be crazy.
I have a secret about how I keep my flour organized in my kitchen: I use a special, large, airtight container to hold my flour, but I don’t like to take it out of the bag. Instead, I place the bag in the container, and as I use the flour, I tear down the top of the bag little-by-little so it’s easy to scoop out the flour from inside the bag. This is the way I keep track of what flour I’ve purchased (and how new it is).
Anyway……………….. this is what the crust is going to look like after you mix it all up with your mixer.
Get yourself some clean hands and use them to press the crust into the pan and slightly up the sides.
Bake the crust until it’s golden brown.
Mix peaches with sugar and spices (if you need help on how to peel the peaches, visit this post: How to Peel Peaches).
Next comes the topping.
The topping ingredients are mixed with butter to make a crumbly mixture.
For assembly: the peaches are spread on top of the baked crust.
A few raspberries are scattered on top.
The crumbly topping mixture comes next, and then into the oven it goes!
Once the pie bars have cooled completely, use the handles of the parchment paper to gently lift them out of the pan and onto a cutting board. Use a knife to loosen the edges if you need to.
Cut these into beautiful squares and serve them up to peach and pie lovers everywhere. My little treadmill dessert “idea” turned into a big hit around the house. We had relatives visiting, and they seemed pretty happy to be munching on these for dessert and for breakfast too. They were gone almost immediately. So like I said before, grab those peaches and get to work. Pie bars kind of have a way of making people happy. Thanks for hanging out with me and my peaches this week 🙂 That’s my last peach recipe of the summer. At least, I think so… Disclosure: This recipe was written for Gold Medal Flour, a product that I use every day in my kitchen.
