Friday, 21 August 2009

Hello Dolly Bars!

This is a recipe for the whole family. The children will love to make this and if they can make it, I'm sure you can too. There is no mixing, no rising, no precision. The following measures are approximates. If you like other ingredients, feel free to mix. For example, replace walnuts with pecan nuts, half white/half dark chocolate, raisins, etc.
Ingredients:
120 g unsalted butter, melted
150 g digestive biscuits (crumbs)
100 g shredded coconut
175 g dark chocolate
100 g chopped walnuts
400 g condensed milk

Get the biscuits out.

Crush them with your hands or put them in a plastic bag and bang them with a heavy pan of rolling pin.

Melt the butter in the microwave, pour it into a paperlined baking tray of 25x25 cm (or equivalent).

Pour the biscuit crumbs over. Don't mix, just make sure they are evenly distributed.

Pour the coco over.

Chop up the chocolate. I did it a bit rough but it's up to you how fine you want it.

Chop the walnuts and pour them over.

Pour over the condensed milk. If anyone is in doubt, condensed milk is milk where the water has been removed and sugar added to a thick syrup.

Bake at 170ยบ until it's golden on top and a tooth pick will come out clean. It takes somewhere between 15 minutes and 30 minutes. It will be soft when you take it out but harden as it cools down.

Cut into squares.

There you are. Delicious, chewy, sweet, crunchy squares that will have you neighbors knocking on the door by coincidence asking to borrow whatever they can think of as an excuse.

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