Moist Applesauce Cocoa Bars
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
3-4 dozen
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 2 cups applesauce
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
directions
- Set oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan.
- In a bowl, cream the 1-1/2 cups sugar with the 1/2 cup butter; beat until fluffy.
- Add in the eggs; beat well.
- Sift together the cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and the flour.
- Add to the butter mixture, alternately with the applesauce; mix well.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking pan.
- In a small bowl, combine the 2 Tbsp sugar, 1 cup chocolate chips and 1 cup chopped nuts.
- Sprinkle over the batter in the pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes (do not over bake!) Cut into bars.
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Reviews
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YUMMY! Made these early this morning before it got too hot in the kitchen. A real snap to mix up and turned out oh-so moist and delicious. Just the right blend of cinnamon and chocolate. I omitted the nuts to please the kids, and drizzled with a few melted chocolate chips right after I removed from oven. Perfect with some vanilla ice cream!
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These were so good! Wow. Made these for a former neighbor who moved to a "work in progress" house with her dh and 5 kids a year ago and they still don't have a working oven. I made a 1.5 sized recipe because my pan was bigger and it worked great (though I did have to cook for 40 minutes). I used whole wheat pastry flour but otherwise left the bars the same. For the topping I used Oklahoma pecans, semi sweet chocolate chunks, and milk chocolate chips. I forgot to add the sugar and just pretty much poured the 3 things in a bowl (using all the nuts & chunks I had and them liberally adding some chips) and then put them on the top. Really yummy bars. A little crumbly but moist and lovely. Just chocolatey enough. Thanks Kitten!