My sister was making fun of me the other day because she was looking at my blog and asked, "Ooo, how were those coffee frosted cookies?" and I had to tell her that she had, in fact, eaten them. She had totally forgotten since my post went up about a month after I had actually made them. This seems to be par for the course with my blog. No matter how often I bake I doubt that I will ever have the drive to do a post a day, or even a post a week. I have been sitting here in front of the computer for over an hour and I almost didn't even write this post.
I digress.
Here is a picture of a honey nut bar:
Yes, yes. Not bad looking. I made them about a billion years ago, but at least the picture stays fresh.
These bars were pretty tasty really. They are not something I would want all the time, but they made a delightful little breakfast treat. The bars came out a little dense, but I don't want to make it sound like a bad thing so I'll call them "hearty". Here's the recipe:
Honey-Nut Bars (from The Ultimate Cookie Book)
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup honey
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 c. coconut
1 c. chopped walnuts
1 recipe powdered sugar icing
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and shortening on medium to high speed for about 30 seconds.
- Add honey, baking powder, and salt and beat until combined, scraping bowl occasionally.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla until combined and then add flour.
- Stir in coconut and nuts.
- Spread batter in prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan, cut, and then allow to fully cool before drizzling with icing and topping with more nuts.
These were really delicious. It is hard to look at the picture without wanting to pick one up and devour it!
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