Cappucino Nanaimo Bars Recipe
Flavors of British Columbia
Total time: more than 2 hours
Preparation time: 15-20 minutes
Cooking time: few minutes
Cooling time: 1 hour + 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
For 16 bites
Bottom layer
- 125 ml / ½ cup butter
- 60 ml / ¼ cup sugar
- 80 ml / ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 500 ml / 2 cups crushed graham crackers (packaged graham cracker crumbs may be used)
- 250 ml / 1 cup shredded coconut
- 125 ml / ½ cup chopped walnuts
Middle layer
- 125 ml / 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 Tbsp. + 2 tsp. heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp. custard powder
- 2 tsp. instant coffee powder
- 500 ml / 2 cups icing sugar
Top layer
- 120 g / 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 Tablespoon butter
Method
Bottom layer
- Grease a 23 cm / 9-inch square cake pan.
- Combine butter, sugar, cocoa, egg, and cardamon in a heavy sauce pan. Heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens.
- Add graham crackers crumbs, coconut, and chopped walnuts, stirring to combine. Press the mixture in the greased pan.
Middle layer
- Beat together butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla custard or pudding powder, acream and coffee, until the mixture is creamy.
- Spread over graham cracker base in cake pan. Refrigerate bars until firm, at least 1 hour.
Topping
- Melt semi-sweet chocolate and 1 Tablespoon butter. Drizzle over chilled bars. Return to refrigerator to chill until firm (at least 1 hour).
- Cut into squares and serve.
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Photo by Peter Arthold
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