Recipe: Tasty Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!)

Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!). Nanaimo bars are considered to be a Canadian invented recipe. These are included in almost all dessert trays that are served at any kind of party or. The Nanaimo bar /nəˈnaɪmoʊ/ is a bar dessert that requires no baking and is named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia.

It's a Nanaimo bar, the pride of Canada's dessert case. But where did it come from? It's obvious, you might say: Nanaimo bars are named after the city of Nanaimo, located on Vancouver Island in Western Canada, so they must come from there. You can have Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!)

1. Prepare 8 Inch of square baking tray, or similarly sized.
2. You need of -- Bottom Layer ---.
3. You need 110 grams of butter (1/2 cup).
4. You need 50 grams of white sugar (1/4 cup).
5. Prepare 40 grams of cocoa (5 tablespoons).
6. You need 1 of egg (beaten).
7. Prepare 100 grams of graham cracker crumbs (1 1/4 cups).
8. It's 1 cup of coconut.
9. You need of -- Filling ---.
10. Prepare 110 grams of butter (1/2 cup).
11. Prepare 40 grams of heavy cream (2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons).
12. It's 20 grams of custard powder (2 tablespoon).
13. You need 250 grams of icing sugar (about 2 cups).
14. You need of -- Top Layer ---.
15. You need 115 grams of milk or semi-sweet chocolate (4 oz).
16. It's 30 grams of butter (2 tablespoon).

Nanaimo bars are creamy, chocolatey dessert treats originating from Nanaimo, a city "so beautiful it's alright to stare". The same can be said for Nanaimo bars, layered cookies that don't need to be baked, consisting of a mixture of crushed graham crackers, coconut, and nuts acting as a base that is topped. Nanaimo Bars are Canada's national dessert. These are the best places to try them in the city along the Nanaimo Bar Trail.

Nanaimo Bars (Canada's other favourite dessert!) step by step

1. For the bottom layer, melt your butter, white sugar and cocoa in a double boiler (this is a second pot sitting on top of a pot with gently boiling water in it)..
2. Remove from the heat, and add the egg, and stir until the mixture thickens. Then stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts..
3. Press mixture into your pan using a rubber spatula..
4. For the filling, cream together the butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar. Beat this until it has a light consistency, and then spread on top of the bottom layer. If your butter is too hard to cream, you can melt it in advance..
5. Spread on top of the bottom layer..
6. For the top layer, melt the chocolate and the butter together with your double boiler and mix, once combined remove from heat..
7. Let it cool, and while still liquid spread it over the filling layer..
8. Cover your tray with plastic wrap, and place in the fridge to cool for at least an hour or two..
9. Cut into pieces, and serve cold with tea or coffee. Enjoy!.

It's hard to place exactly when the Nanaimo bar took over Canada. There are a variety of origin stories, ranging from early Dutch settlers to the wives of coal miners who cooked. Nanaimo Bars are a traditional Canadian Christmas dessert. The holidays wouldn't be the same without them. Yes, I dared to toy with a Canadian classic!