Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!)
Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!)

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nanaimo bars (canada's other favourite dessert!). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hello, Thank You for joining us for another episode of The Wellness Soldier "Cooking w/ Cannabis" video series. Today we will be learning how to make Canada'. Nanaimo bars are considered to be a Canadian invented recipe.

Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have nanaimo bars (canada's other favourite dessert!) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!):
  1. Get 8 Inch square baking tray, or similarly sized
  2. Make ready – Bottom Layer —
  3. Take 110 grams butter (1/2 cup)
  4. Make ready 50 grams white sugar (1/4 cup)
  5. Get 40 grams cocoa (5 tablespoons)
  6. Get 1 egg (beaten)
  7. Get 100 grams graham cracker crumbs (1 1/4 cups)
  8. Get 1 cup coconut
  9. Get – Filling —
  10. Get 110 grams butter (1/2 cup)
  11. Prepare 40 grams heavy cream (2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons)
  12. Get 20 grams custard powder (2 tablespoon)
  13. Get 250 grams icing sugar (about 2 cups)
  14. Take – Top Layer —
  15. Prepare 115 grams milk or semi-sweet chocolate (4 oz)
  16. Get 30 grams butter (2 tablespoon)

The story goes that a Nanaimo housewife entered a recipe for a chocolate square in a magazine contest. The misty city of Nanaimo is the namesake for what might just be the sunniest dessert square the world has ever produced: the Nanaimo bar. If you grew up in Canada or in the Pacific Northwest, you may be familiar with the Nanaimo Bar, a no-bake, triple-layered confection that gets its name from Nanaimo (pronounced Na-NYE-mo), a city on Vancouver Island in British. Tracing Nanaimo Bar History Back Through Community Cookbooks.

Steps to make Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!):
  1. For the bottom layer, melt your butter, white sugar and cocoa in a double boiler (this is a second pot sitting on top of a pot with gently boiling water in it).
  2. Remove from the heat, and add the egg, and stir until the mixture thickens. Then stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts.
  3. Press mixture into your pan using a rubber spatula.
  4. For the filling, cream together the butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar. Beat this until it has a light consistency, and then spread on top of the bottom layer. If your butter is too hard to cream, you can melt it in advance.
  5. Spread on top of the bottom layer.
  6. For the top layer, melt the chocolate and the butter together with your double boiler and mix, once combined remove from heat.
  7. Let it cool, and while still liquid spread it over the filling layer.
  8. Cover your tray with plastic wrap, and place in the fridge to cool for at least an hour or two.
  9. Cut into pieces, and serve cold with tea or coffee. Enjoy!

Like many cherished recipes across Canada, this one came Among other treasured treats like Date Squares or Blueberry Grunt, the Nanaimo Bar stands out across the country. The ever popular Nanaimo Bar, known internationally, and a favourite dessert in many restaurants, has a notable thermal significance. During Nanaimo's heyday as an international coal provider, families of miners sent care packages which often included this sweet treat. Nanaimo Bars - a deliciously tempting treat made with decadent chocolate, honey sweetened graham crackers, crunchy nuts, rich butter and custard powder. They are a popular Canadian confection, basically a layered bar cookie, that to me tastes very similar to a richly chocolaty, loaded fudge.

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