SARA LEE CRUMB CAKE RECIPES

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 vital ingredient that makes this a true Nanaimo bar. Use an offset spatula to give the chocolate top a surface as smooth as freshly Zambonied ice. The novelist Margaret Atwood included this recipe, from the chef Susan Mendelson, in her “Canlit Foodbook,” a fund-raising book that featured food from literature, as well as author recipes. Ms. Atwood prefers walnuts in this recipe, but any combination of walnuts, almonds or pecans will do. We’ve added a smidge more cocoa and the optional addition of salt — but leave it out for the true Nanaimo bar experience.

Provided by Sara Bonisteel

Total Time 2 hours

Yield 16 bars

Number Of Ingredients 15

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 344, UnsaturatedFatContent 9 grams, CarbohydrateContent 35 grams, FatContent 23 grams, FiberContent 2 grams, ProteinContent 3 grams, SaturatedFatContent 13 grams, SodiumContent 118 milligrams, SugarContent 24 grams, TransFatContent 1 gram

Founded in 1914 by Harry Brown and J.C. Haley in Tacoma, Washington, the Brown and Haley Candy Company is one of the oldest confectioners in the country. In 1923 the company hit the jackpot when Harry Brown and the former cook from what would eventually become the Mars candy company, created a chocolate-coated butter toffee candy, sprinkled with California almonds. They took the sweet to Tacoma's head librarian, and she named it Almond Roca—roca means "rock" in Spanish. In 1927 the two men decided to wrap the little candies in imported gold foil and pack them into the now-familiar pink cans to extend their shelf life threefold. In fact, because of the way the candy was packaged, it was carried by troops in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. The Brown and Haley candy company is still housed in the former shoe factory that it has occupied since 1919. Almond Roca is so popular today that it can be found in sixty-four countries and is a market leader in Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan. The company sells more than 5 million pounds of Almond Roca each year and is the United States leading exporter of packaged confections.  Click here for more of my copycat recipes of famous candy. Source: Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur.

Provided by Todd Wilbur

Total Time 50 minutes0S

Prep Time 25 minutes0S

Cook Time 25 minutes0S

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 157 calories