Best Calypso Bars Recipes
CALYPSO BARS
A chocolate date bar. My childhood memories of holidays included these bars from my mother's friend Bernie. Wonderfully rich.
Provided by lynnielyn
Categories Desserts Cookies Fruit Cookie Recipes Date
Time 55m
Yield 30
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x10-inch baking pan.
- Cook and stir dates, chocolate, water, white sugar, and 1/4 cup butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and thickened, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract. Set aside to cool.
- Beat brown sugar and 3/4 cup butter together in a bowl until creamy. Add oats, flour, walnuts, baking soda, and salt; stir until texture is crumbly.
- Press half the oat mixture into bottom of the prepared pan. Evenly spread chocolate-date mixture over oat mixture layer; crumble remaining oat mixture over chocolate-date layer.
- Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 30 small squares.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 221.5 calories, Carbohydrate 32.6 g, Cholesterol 16.3 mg, Fat 10.3 g, Fiber 1.9 g, Protein 2.3 g, SaturatedFat 4.9 g, Sodium 107.2 mg, Sugar 23 g
CALYPSO BARS
Steps:
- Melt chocolate in hot water. Add sugar. Stir until dissolved. Add dates. Cook over low heat until thickened - About 5 minutes. Blend in 1/4 cup butter. Add vanilla - cool, cream 3/4 cup butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Sift together flour, salt and soda. Ad to creamed mixture. Blend well. Add nuts and oats. Mix until crumbly. Press 1/2 onto bottom of greased 13x9x2" pan. Add date mixture - Top with rest of nut mixture. Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
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