Marshmallow Squares

Recipe via: Company's Coming 150 Delicious Squares

First Layer:
   1 1/2 cups flour
   1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
   3/4 cup butter
Combine first 3 ingredients and mix to crumble
Press into ungreased 9 x 9 pan
Bake in 325* oven for 20 minutes until set and golden brown
Cool

Second Layer:
   3/4 cup cold water
   1 1/4 oz unflavored gelatin powder
   3/4 cup granulated sugar
   1/8 tsp salt

Pour water in saucepan.
Sprinkle gelatin over and let stand for 5 minutes
Add granulated sugar and salt
Heat over medium heat stirring to dissolve gelatin and sugar.
Remove from heat

Have  in your mixing bowl + ready for the gelatin mixture to be poured over once it has finished cooking:
   3/4 cup icing sugar
   3/4 tsp baking powder
   1/2 tsp vanilla
   1/2 tsp almond flavoring
   Red food coloring

Stir in icing sugar
Cool - when cool, beat until foamy
Add baking powder vanilla and almond.
Add food coloring to tint a pretty pink
Beat at high speed until thick enough to stand in peaks (anywhere from 12-15 minutes, maybe longer. You will know! It will be quite thick.
Pour soft pink mixture over shortbread base.
Cool until gloss disappears
Cut into 36 pretty squares
Cut the squares using a sharp knife that has first been dipped into hot water then wiped with a clean kitchen towel.

It is easiest to slice the entire length at once--just drag your knife through.

Dip your knife in the hot water each time you are making a fresh cut.

These are sticky--but forgo the fork, these are for fingers!

Additions to be tried if you care to:
   1/2 cup chopped cherries
                 and/or
   1/2 cup toasted chopped almonds