Dream Bars

Name: Dream Bars
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 3 eggs; 355 milliliters flour; 237 milliliters light brown sugar; 237 milliliters coarsely chopped toasted pecans; 0 teaspoons salt; 397 grams sweetened condensed milk; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter at room temperature; 355 milliliters unsweetened coconut flakes; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Dream Bars might be a good recipe to expand your hor d'oeuvre repertoire. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 213 calories, 4g of protein, and 11g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 24. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 25 minutes. If you have butter, pecans, condensed milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Line a 9 by 13-inch baking pan with foil so that it covers the bottom and overhangs 2 sides by at least 1-inch. Tuck the overlap around the outside of the pan. Coat with nonstick vegetable spray.

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Vegetable

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Baking Pan

Aluminum Foil

Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

In a bowl, combine 1 cup of the flour, 1/2 cup of the brown sugar, and the pecans. Work in the butter, rubbing and pinching it between your fingertips, until the mixture looks mealy and lumpy. Lightly pat the streusel onto the bottom of the pan.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

Pecans

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Frying Pan

In a mixing bowl, beat together the eggs and the remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar until doubled in volume. Beat in the vanilla extract.

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Vanilla Extract

Brown Sugar

Egg

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Mixing Bowl

In another bowl, sift together the remaining 1/2 cup flour, baking powder, and salt, then beat into the egg mixture.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Egg

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Bowl

Spread on top of the streusel.

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Spread

Sprinkle on the coconut and the sweetened condensed milk.

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Sweetened Condensed Milk

Coconut

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the first tiny bubbles come up. Set on a rack to cool. Run a knife around the 2 unfoiled pan sides to loosen, then lift the whole cake out of the pan.

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