Walnut and coconut bar cookies
30 cookies
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Unsifted all-purpose flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Freshly grated nutmeg |
| 10 | tablespoons | Unsalted butter, melted and cooled (1 stick + 2 tb) |
| 1½ | cup | Light brown sugar |
| ⅓ | cup | Granulated sugar |
| 4 | Extra-large eggs | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| 1½ | cup | Chopped walnuts |
| 1 | cup | Sweetened flaked coconut |
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Whisk the butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar and eggs in a bowl. Blend in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and mix until the particles of flour are absorbed. Stir in the walnuts and coconut.
Pour and scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until just set.
Place the pan on a cooling rack. Cool completely. Cut into thirty 2¼ by 1 ¾-inch rectangles. Remove the bars from the pan using a metal spatula. Store in an airtight container.
from Baking for Gift-Giving by Lisa Yockelson typed by Tiffany Hall-Graham Submitted By TIFFANY HALL-GRAHAM On 03-25-95