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Cappucino Nanaimo Bars Recipe
 
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Cappucino Nanaimo Bars
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

  1. Grease a 23 cm / 9-inch square cake pan.
  2. Combine butter, sugar, cocoa, egg, and cardamon in a heavy sauce pan. Heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens.
  3. Add graham crackers crumbs, coconut, and chopped walnuts, stirring to combine. Press the mixture in the greased pan.

Middle layer

  1. Beat together butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla custard or pudding powder, acream and coffee, until the mixture is creamy.
  2. Spread over graham cracker base in cake pan. Refrigerate bars until firm, at least 1 hour.

Topping

  1. Melt semi-sweet chocolate and 1 Tablespoon butter. Drizzle over chilled bars. Return to refrigerator to chill until firm (at least 1 hour).
  2. Cut into squares and serve.
 
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Photo by Peter Arthold

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