Apple Bars

1 ¾ cup sugar

1 cup butter

4 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ tsp. baking powder

3 cups flour

½ tsp. salt

2- 20 oz. cans apple pie filling (or filling of your choice.  I like peach.)

Cream sugar and butter together until fluffy.  Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.  Stir together flour, baking powder and salt.  Add to creamed mixture stirring until blended.  Spread half dough in ungreased cookie sheet.  Carefully spread pie filling over dough.  Drop remaining dough over pie filling.  Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.  While warm, spread with lemon frosting.

Lemon frosting

1 ¼ cup powdered sugar

1 tbsp. melted butter

2 tbsp. lemon juice

Blend well.  Add a little milk if necessary.

Pretzel Berry Salad

8 oz. cream cheese

1 cup sugar

2 cups pretzels (broken into pieces)

1 cube butter

1 large cool whip

1 bag frozen berries (thawed and drained)

Mix ½ cup sugar and butter in pan on stove.  Coat broken pretzels with butter and sugar mixture and spread on cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.  Cool and break into pieces again.  Mix remaining 1/2 cup sugar, cream cheese and cool whip.  Mix berries into cream cheese mixture.  Add pretzels just before serving.