Nanaimo Bars
Recipe by: SatoshiMiwa Uploaded by Drimble Wedge
So today I decided to make Nanaimo Bars for a staff get together and gift exchange. Others are coming with cheap and tacky gifts, I'm coming with home made dessert squares. Decided to document the process and share it with GWS so you too can make the square that made Nanaimo semi-famous in Canada and is Canada's favourite dessert square.
First some background info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo_bar
And the page on the city website - http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/visitors/NanaimoBars.html . Yes the city is proud of it, it's one of two things we are famous for. The other is for racing bathtubs in water!
Don't forget to line the pan with a parchment or foil sling. It makes depanning the bars so much easier.
Bottom Layer
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup sugar
- 5 tbsp. cocoa
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 ¼ cups graham wafer crumbs
- ½ c. finely chopped almonds
- 1 cup coconut
First mix together the crumbs, almonds, coconut in a bowl. The city's web site says to melt the butter with the egg and cocoa in a double boiler, but I'm lazy so I melted the butter in a microwave and mixed it together with the egg and the crumb mixture. I than baked it at 350 for 10 minutes in the oven.
Thus you get -
