Austrian Chocolate Walnut Bars
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
-
40 bars
- Serves:
- 40
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2⁄3 cup apricot preserves
- 4 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup unsweetened dutch cocoa
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups walnuts, toasted and finely ground
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon light-color corn syrup
- 1 tablespoon rum
- about 40 walnut halves, toasted (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the 1 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
- Add the 1/2 cup brown sugar. Beat until combined, scraping side of bowl occasionally.
- Gradually add flour, beating on low speed just until combined (mixture will look slightly dry).
- Press mixture into prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- Carefully spread preserves over hot crust.
- In another large bowl, beat eggs on medium-high speed for 3 minutes. Add the 1-1/2 cups brown sugar, the cocoa powder, vanilla, and salt.
- Beat on low speed for 3 minutes.
- Gradually add the finely ground walnuts, beating just until combined.
- Carefully spread chocolate mixture evenly over preserves.
- Bake about 30 minutes or until set.
- Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
- Icing:.
- In a medium heavy saucepan, combine bittersweet chocolate and the 3 tablespoons butter.
- Cook and stir over low heat until melted. Stir in corn syrup and rum.
- Spread icing over cooled uncut cookies.
- If desired, top with the walnut halves.
- Let stand for 1 to 2 hours or until chocolate is set.
- Using a sharp knife, loosen edges of cookies from sides of pan.
- Cut into bars.
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Peoria, 41
<p><span><strong>I am a stay at home mom to two wonderful boys; Joshua (8years), Kaiden (5 years), and baby GIRL, Madalynn (19 months)! I also have two fur babies (cats); Kobee, AJ; we had to put our youngest cat Sly down Jan 2014. :(. I am also married to my best friend, Jeff and have been since April 2005. I love cooking, hate cleaning and will do whatever I can to get out of it! I love grilling and baking. I do most of the grilling at my house, and bake for almost a week straight at Christmas time! I can make or will attempt just about anything, though I rarely make brownies, my husband's are the best! Homemade breads are not my friend, so I am always working on bread baking.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>As for recipe ideas (besides zaar) Cooking Light Cookbooks are my favorites. I love to make new meals and try new things; it is hard though because my husband is picky when it comes to veggies (and hates seafood); If it were up to him we would have baked-bread crumb chicken and white rice at least one meal a day! Over the past couple years with zaar, I have found tons of new recipes my family normally wouldn’t eat but have been happily surprised with new favorites.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Cooking is my hobby and passion, I always like to host the family get togethers and volunteer for the potluck dishes. Most of all though are my kids; being home all day with them is fun and challenging, but I wouldn’t trade it for any salary!!</strong></span></p>