Spice Bars

Name: Spice Bars
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 118 milliliters butter; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 1 egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons maple flavored extract; 237 milliliters raisins; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 591 milliliters water; 237 milliliters white sugar

Spice Bars is a vegetarian recipe with 48 servings. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 72 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat. A mixture of vanillan extract, raisins, confectioners' sugar, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It works well as a very affordable hor d'oeuvre. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 30 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10x15 inch jellyroll pan.

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All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Frying Pan

Place the raisins and water into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, and cook for 3 minutes.

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Raisins

Water

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Sauce Pan

Drain, and reserve the liquid. Set aside to cool slightly.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.

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Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Bowl

Mix in the egg and vanilla until well blended.

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Vanilla

Egg

Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; stir into the batter alternately with the raisin water. Set aside 1/4 cup of the raisin liquid to use for the frosting.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Frosting

Raisins

All Purpose Flour

Water

Salt

Mix in raisins last.

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Raisins

Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.

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Spread

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Frying Pan

Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top is lightly browned. While the cake is baking, stir together the reserved raisin water, maple extract and confectioners' sugar to make a thin glaze.

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Powdered Sugar