Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nanaimo bars. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Nanaimo Bars - a deliciously tempting treat made with decadent chocolate, honey sweetened graham crackers, crunchy nuts, rich butter and custard powder. Some of you are likely asking, what are Nanaimo Bars? They are a popular Canadian confection, basically a layered bar cookie, that to me.
Nanaimo Bars is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Nanaimo Bars is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have nanaimo bars using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nanaimo Bars:
- Get 1 Cup Butter
- Take 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
- Prepare 3 Tablespoons Cocoa
- Take 1 Egg
- Prepare 2 Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
- Prepare 2 Cups Sugar , Powdered
- Prepare 1/4 Cup Fresh Cream
- Make ready 2 Tablespoons Custard Powder
- Make ready 3 Ounces Chocolate Chips
Nanaimo Bars are one of Canada's favorite confections. The story goes that a Nanaimo housewife entered a recipe for a chocolate square in a magazine contest. She called her recipe 'Nanaimo Bars'. Yes, I dared to toy with a Canadian classic!
Steps to make Nanaimo Bars:
- Start with the crust. Melt together the butter, brown sugar, and cocoa.
- Beat the egg, and quickly whisk it into the hot chocolate mixture. You need to add the egg slowly and keep the whisk moving.This is important.
- Make sure the chocolate mixture is removed from heat.
- Otherwise you will get a huge mass of scrambled egg.
- Mix in the graham crackers.
- Press the crust into an 8×8 pan that has been lined with parchment.
- Put the crust into the fridge to chill for a half hour.
- Make the buttercream layer, but creaming together the powdered sugar, butter, and custard powder.
- Add the cream slowly, and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Spread the cream layer evenly over the crust. Back in the fridge for another half hour or so.
- Melt together the butter and chocolate (either a double boiler or microwave) and pour over the chilled cream layer.
- Back in the fridge to set up.
The recipe has been around forever but what could make it even better?…well I've had several requests over the years for a standard Nanaimo Bar recipe but I'd never posted one. There are practically thousands of websites. Put Nanaimo Bars on the dessert table and you'll instantly make a million new friends. This easy but surprisingly addictive layered dessert bar hails from Canada, and we can't get enough of it! Later versions change the vanilla custard layer to mint or peanut butter but the original is my favourite.
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