Spiced Prune Bars
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
-
48 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄8 teaspoon clove
- 1 cup chopped pitted prune
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- lemon, glaze
- 3⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 1 - 1 1⁄2 tablespoon lemon juice
directions
- Stir together the dry ingredients (flour through cloves) to combine thoroughly. Add prunes, stirring well to coat with flour.
- Preheat oven to 375°F Cream together butter and sugar, then beat in egg until fluffy.
- Gradually blened in flour mixture. Divide dough into 4 equal portions.
- Spread walnuts on a large piece of waxed paper. Shape each portion of dough into a long roll and turn in nuts to coat well on all sides.
- Transfer nut-encrusted rolls to greased baking sheets. Flatten rolls into strips with your fingers until they are about1 1/2 inches wide and 3/4 inch think. Sprinkle strips with any remaining nuts.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of each strip comes out clean and nuts are toasted (15-20 minutes). Let cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes.
- Drizzle strips with Lemon Glaze. Then cut into 1-inch wide bars on the diagonal. Transfer bars to wire racks to cool completely.
- Lemon Glaze.
- In a small bowl, combine confectioner's sugar and lemon rind. Gradually add lemon juice, stirring until the glaze is smooth and of a good drizzling consistency.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
kitchengrrl
Fort Worth, TX
In my family, I am most famous (infamous) for several dishes:
My first original recipe: Conceived around age 7, for a cheese sandwich. Toasted English muffin, spread with butter, slice of American cheese, a good layer of Parmesan, top with other half of buttered muffin.
My most disasterous recipe: The Exploding Brownies. Otherwise great hershey's recipe for brownies involving an ingredient (baking powder) that I'd never used before. I somehow misread 1/4 teaspoon as a 1/4 cup. Brownie coated the ENTIRE oven.
My most requested recipe: Stollen at Christmas. I am required to make one for my mother ever since my sister gave me Christian Teubner's wonderful Christmas Baking book full of traditional German Christmas treats.