Nanaimo Bar update: made them yesterday, using Mimi's recipe.

[michael-in-phoenix]

(I'll try it with walnuts in the future, but her recipe was basically the one from the City of Nanaimo website).

They came together easily and I didn't have any issues with them at all.

I used a technique CI uses to make it easier to get them out of the pan. I lined the pan with foil and let it come up and over two opposite sides of the pan. Then, when the bars were "set", I picked the whole thing up by the foil and took it out of the pan. Peel the foil back and you can place the whole thing on a cutting board and divvy it up.

I scored the chocolate topping when it was partially "set", so the chocolate didn't crack.

I gave a container of them to my son's Canadian-born coach after practice yesterday. He was on his way out to his truck. He was very pleased to get a "taste of home". We saw him in traffic a few minutes later, trying to juggle a bar in one hand and the steering wheel in the other!

I'll let you know his verdict as soon as I get it, but he seemed to be enjoying his drive home!

Thanks again for the help. I appreciate it.

Michael

 

[cheezz]

Isn't it nice when something turns out exactly like you'd hoped?!

 

[steve2-in-la]

Sorry, did I miss the post where you asked for my address so I could take some off your hands?

I like to think of myself as a taker as well as a giver. There's also a chance the mescal IV has backed up on me again and the hallucinations have resumed in which case . . . never mind.

 

[angak1]

did you get to try one?

 

[steve2-in-la]

No such luck. Guess I'll just have to get a regular bar of some kind. (Heavy sigh.)

 

[cath-in-v]

There's still time. Kraft Canada's What's Cooking magazine just arrived.(more).

and there's a festive version called Candy Cane Nanaimo Bars. I usually regard variations on the original in the same way i view Crantini's and Lemon Drops as versions of the martini.But this looks like it might be fun to try.

http://www.kraftcanada.com/en/recipes/candy-cane-nanaimo-bars-128078.aspx

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

I have not had the chance to get with him yet. I'll let you know when I do.

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

Steve, don't make me tell everyone what I offered to send you...

Nanaimo bars are so much cheaper.

Michael

 

[steve2-in-la]

Actually, I've had two different kinds of Nanaimo. Resort head came around and gave us a box one

Christmas. They were cut into bite sized pieces, 4 layers about 1/4" each. Not bad, but REALLY sweet. Years later, I had one from a bakery in Vancouver and it had the same number of layers but a different flavor profile. Seemed like two very different confections to me.