Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, nanaimo bar. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
In a bowl, over a pan of simmering water, melt the butter with the sugar and cocoa powder, stirring occasionally until smooth. The Nanaimo bar / n ə ˈ n aɪ m oʊ / is a dessert item of Canadian origin. It is a bar dessert which requires no baking and is named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia. It consists of three layers: a wafer, nut (walnuts, almonds, or pecans), and coconut crumb base; custard icing in the middle; and a layer of chocolate ganache on top.
Nanaimo Bar is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Nanaimo Bar is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nanaimo bar using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nanaimo Bar:
- Take Bottom Layer
- Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- Get 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- Get 5 tbsp cocoa
- Get 1 egg (beaten)
- Get 1 1/4 cup Graham cracker crumbs
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- Make ready 1 cup coconut (shredded)
- Get Middle Layer
- Prepare 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 2/3 tbsp cream
- Prepare 2 tbsp vanilla custard podwer
- Make ready 2 cup icing sugar
- Take Top Layer
- Make ready 4 oz semi-sweet chocolate
- Get 2 tbsp unsalted butter
Level out as smoothly as possible with a spoon or small offset palette knife. Then chill for another hour or so in the fridge. In the top of a double boiler, combine butter, caster sugar and cocoa powder. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth.
Steps to make Nanaimo Bar:
- Melt the butter, sugar, and cocoa together in the top of a double boiler.
- Once melted, add the egg(s) and stir to cook and thicken. Once thickened, remove from heat.
- Stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts, mix well.
- Press mixture firmly into an ungreased 8" x 8" pan.
- In a new bowl, cream together the butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar together well.
- Beat mixture until it is a light consistency, then spread overtop of the bottom layer.
- Chill with second layer for 1 hour or until custard is solid.
- Melt chocolate and butter over low heat. Once the chocolate is liquefied, remove from heat.
- Once cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer and chill the whole pan in refrigerator.
- Once solid, cut into squares, serve and enjoy!
In the top of a double boiler, combine butter, caster sugar and cocoa powder. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth. Remove from heat and mix in the digestive biscuit crumbs, coconut and almonds (if you like). The Nanaimo bar is a tremendously sweet, no-bake layered bar cookie from Canada made almost exclusively of packaged ingredients. The buttercream layer gets its yellow hue from custard powder, a.
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