Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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  1                cup  graham craker crumbs
  1                cup  sugar -- divided
     1/4           cup  butter -- (1/2 stick) melted
  3 3/4           cups  package mounds sweetened coconut flakes -- (10 ounce)
     1/4           cup  flour
     1/4      teaspoon  salt
  3                     egg whites
  1                     egg -- slightly beaten
  1           teaspoon  almond extract
  13                    red or green maraschino cherries -- halved and drained

Preparation:

heat oven to 350 lightly grease 9 inch square baking pan.Stir together crumbs,1/4 cup sugar and melted butter.press onto botton of prepared pan.Bake 5 minutes remove from oven;leave oven on.Stir toget her coconut,remaining 3/4 cup sugar,flour and salt.Add egg whites,egg and almond extract.Spread mixture over crumb mixture;press in cherry halves.Bake 30 35 minutes or until lightly browned around edge.Coocompletely in pan on wire rack.Cover;cut into bars

Nutritional Information:

1416 Calories (kcal); 51g Total Fat; (31% calories from fat); 20g Protein; 225g Carbohydrate; 311mg Cholesterol; 1224mg Sodium