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German Chocolate Bars for my Dad's Birthday

High German Chocolate Bars | Pecan, Coconut & Chocolate Bars

My Dad loves anything chocolate - his favorite existence High German Chocolate Cake.  The icing of High German Chocolate Cake is a pecan in addition to kokosnoot caramel icing.  I decided to seek to contain chocolate, pecan in addition to kokosnoot into a 'mail-able' cookie bar to shipping to him for his birthday.


I had some fudge brownies roughly the household (that I needed to larn rid of earlier I finished them off!) thence I used that to crumble into the bar, but I intend I volition job semi-sweet chocolate chips adjacent time.  So, this recipe shows the chocolate fighting version, but experience costless to locomote creative in addition to contain whatsoever variety of chocolate yous have.

This recipe is based roughly The Barefoot Contessa's Pecan Bars.  I used her shortbread cookie crust in addition to the caramel for the pecans, but added toasted kokosnoot in addition to chocolate.

Cream the butter in addition to sugar.

Add egg.*
I was making a 1/3 batch... 1/3 of the pan.  The entire recipe calls for three eggs in addition to makes 24 bars.

Add dry out ingredients.  Don't over mix at this indicate - but combine.  You don't desire to start to railroad train the glutens inward the flour... it volition piece of work bread-like.

Press into an ungreased pan.

This was my creative means of creating a smaller baking sheet... I want I had my tart pans - they would stimulate got been perfect, but alas, they are inward boxes!  One affair catering taught me : brand due alongside what yous have... locomote creative.

Bake for fifteen minutes.

Topping :

Make caramel topping yesteryear melting butter, corn syrup in addition to brownish saccharide together.

Cook for three minutes, withdraw from oestrus in addition to add together pecans...

I toasted one-half my kokosnoot for three minutes to rank it a picayune flavor.  I kept the other one-half untoasted for the moisture.

Add kokosnoot to mixture.

Cookie crust is baked in addition to laid for brownie crumbs (or chocolate chips - whatever yous have!).

Crumble on brownies - mayhap to a greater extent than than I've pictured for extra chocolate impact.

Top alongside pecan mixture.


Bake for 20-25 minutes until the piece of work yesteryear has set.

Let it cool inward the fridge for 20-30 minutes.  Remove it from the pan alongside a spatula - easier than yous think.  It comes correct out - must locomote all of the butter inward the crust...

Trim the edges for squeamish foursquare bars... in addition to for sampling of the edges.

Cut inward half.

And into squares.

To packet (for gifts), you'll quest a scroll of parchment newspaper in addition to baking twine.  I salve this ruby-red in addition to white twine from some takeout baked goods...

Mike idea I was nuts.  "You're saving string?"  "Yes, I'm saving string - it is cute string."

Wrap it upward similar a package.

German Chocolate Bars | Recipe Card

Shortbread Cookie Crust*
*I love shortbread crusts, my mom's cheesecake uses this variety of crust instead of graham cracker - it is thence skilful in addition to to a greater extent than especial than graham cracker.
1 1/4 pounds unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup granulated saccharide
three extra-large eggs
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
four 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking pulverization

Topping
1/4 teaspoon common salt 1 pound unsalted butter
1 loving cup corn syrup
three cups low-cal brownish sugar, packed
1 1/2 pounds pecans, coarsely chopped
two cups of kokosnoot (toasted, if yous like)
1 loving cup of chocolate chips
2nocoupons

For the crust, combine saccharide in addition to butter inward a mixer until light, almost three minutes.  Add eggs in addition to vanilla, combine.  Add flour, common salt & baking pulverization - stir but until combined.

Press the dough into a baking sheet.  It helps to variety of brand a raised border roughly the sides.  Bake for fifteen minutes at 350 degrees.

For the topping, melt butter inward a heavy-bottomed saucepan.  Add love in addition to brownish sugar.  Cook over depression oestrus for 2-3 minutes, thence enhance the oestrus in addition to laid for 2-3 to a greater extent than minutes, boiling.  Remove from heat, add together pecans in addition to coconut.

On the crust, sprinkled the chocolate chips.  Pour over the pecan topping, spreading evenly.   Bake for 25 minutes.  Let it laid out, thence cool inward the fridge to piece of work far easier to cut.  Cut it into large squares when it has cooled.

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