Who here loves naniamo bars?!
Who here likes naniamo bars? I know I do,I could gain alot from eating them if I wasn't such a health nut! :^D
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Who here likes naniamo bars? I know I do,I could gain alot from eating them if I wasn't such a health nut! :^D
i would climb a mountain to burn one off. since i am a bit older i would have no problem giving a testicle for a good fresh one.
my aunt got me hooked when i was about 8 years old and i'm 40 now.
you say you're a health nut? what about the mental health gained by having something that is so great?
endorphins, endorphins, endorphins.
I do. Here is a little background and recipes for those who do not know what we are talking about.
According to a local legend, about 40 years ago a Nanaimo (Vancouver Island, B.C.) housewife entered her recipe for chocolate squares in a magazine contest. She chose to name the entry after the city where she lived. The entry won the prize. Nanaimo Bars were born.
Some American tourists claim sovereignty over the dessert, referred to as a "New York Slice" which is sold in many other places in the world. Nanaimo residents naturally disagree with this theory, however.
In 1986, Nanaimo Mayor Roberts held a contest to find the ultimate Nanaimo Bar Recipe. During the four-week long contest, almost 100 different variations of the famous confectionery were submitted. The winner: Joyce Hardcastle.
I remember my Mother making these cookies years before that 1986 contest. The second recipe is the same as my Mother's.
Nanaimo Bar Recipe
by Joyce Hardcastle
( The official Nanaimo Bar recipe has become a tourist handout.)
Preparartion time: 40 minutes. Serves 12
Bottom Layer Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted butter (European style cultured)
1/4 cup sugar
5 tablespoons. cocoa
1 egg beaten
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup finely chopped almonds
1 cup coconut
Bottom Layer Instructions:
Melt first 3 ingredients in top of a double boiler
Add egg and stir to cook and thicken
Remove from heat
Stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts
Press firmly into an ungreased 8 x 8 inch baking pan
Second Layer Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons cream
2 tablespoons vanilla custard powder
2 cups icing sugar
Second Layer Instructions:
Cream butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar together well
Beat until light
Spread over bottom layer
Third Layer Ingredients:
4 squares semi-sweet chocolate (1 ounce each)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Third Layer Instructions:
Melt chocolate and butter overlow heat and cool
Once cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer and chill in refrigerator
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Nanaimo Dessert Bar Recipe
Famous Dessert Recipe
Preparation time: 30 minutes. Serves 12
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter (I use regular butter)
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons cocoa
1 beaten egg
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions:
Put butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and cocoa in top of double boiler
Stir well over simmering water until like a custard
Add crushed craker crumbs, walnuts and coconut
Pack mixture in 8 X 8 inch baking pan
Cut into 12 squares
Ice with white butter icing and sprinkle with coconut and refrigerate
Now you have two really good recipes for this famous dessert. Enjoy the recipes and the company of those you share them with!
I don't like them and never did which is very good because I have been diabetic for 3 years now.
I am a former chef and in my 50's and my mother used to make them at Xmas time for years, started back in the 1970's when she got a recipe out of the Canadian version of the Readers Digest.
I actually went to Naniamo when I worked at the CP Hotel in Victoria B.C in the 1980's, and went to a place then that claimed to be the birth place of the bar, like the telephone the US has claimed it to be there when every Canadian know it was invented in Brantford ON in 1876, and it happens also to be my hometown.