Holiday Chocolate Almond Bars
1-1/2 cups unsifted flour
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup cold butter or margarine
1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 egg
2 cups almonds, toasted and chopped
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 tsp solid shortening
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour and sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Press onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake 20 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Melt 1 cup chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk; remove from heat. Cool slightly; beat in egg. Stir in almonds and extract. Spread over prepared crust. Bake 25 minutes or until set. Cool.
Melt remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips with the shortening; drizzle over bars. Chill 10 minutes, or until set.
Cut into bars.