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Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

Featured in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on February 21, 2007.

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Ingredients:

Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 cup finely chopped pecans
  • 1 square (1 ounce) semi-sweet chocolate
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons bourbon or water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon.
  3. Cut in 1/2 cup of the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  4. Stir in pecans.
  5. Press into bottom of an ungreased 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan.
  6. Bake for 10 minutes.
  7. In a saucepan, heat chocolate with the remaining 1/4 cup butter over low heat until chocolate is melted.
  8. Combine remaining ingredients; slowly stir in chocolate mixture.
  9. Pour over crust.
  10. Bake 20 more minutes or until set.
  11. Cool and cut into bars.

Makes 36 bars.

Approximate Nutrient Analysis per bar:
120 calories, 7 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 30 mg cholesterol, 40 mg sodium, 13 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 9 g sugar, 1 g protein

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