Warning - not a Bodybuilder's Recipe

[teamfatboy]

I promised some folks I'd post a recipe for instant choco-gratification: Flamer, the Surgeon-General recommends you stay away for six more days !

Nanaimo Bars

According to legend, a local housewife entered her family’s favourite recipe for chocolate squares into a magazine contest. Out of civic pride, she called them Nanaimo Bars. When her recipe won, the city became immortalised. Others have tried to claim the recipe as theirs – New York Slice, for instance! – but they are all impostors.

Here is the real recipe, right from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada!

Base Layer

125 gms butter or margarine

¼ cup sugar

5 tblspn cocoa

1 egg lightly beaten

¼ tspn vanilla

250 gm packet wheat digestives, crushed

¾ cup shredded coconut

70g packet walnut pieces, crushed

In a double boiler, melt together butter or margarine, sugar and cocoa. Add egg and vanilla. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Stir in crushed digestives, coconut and walnuts. Press mixture firmly into 9” X 9” pan. Chill.

Middle Layer

100 gm butter or margarine

2 tblspn milk or cream

2 tblspn custard powder

2 cups icing sugar

Cream together butter, milk or cream and custard powder. Add icing sugar and blend well. Spread over base layer. Chill

Top Layer

270 gms Belgian style cooking/eating chocolate

1 tblspn butter

Melt together in double boiler. Spread over middle layer. Chill until top layer hardens. Cut into squares.

Variations:

You can add flavouring to the custard layer. Instead of custard use orange or mint. For a coffee taste use strong coffee instead of milk.

For a different effect, add peanut butter to either the base or middle layer

[Gym rat]

Thanks for the warning teamfatboy .I am going avoid the recipe at all cost from what I make of it dose look very high in calories and very fat content as well :puke: :puke: .

[Specter]

I am glad I cant bake or cook. I am visualising it and drooling! :pfft:

[poos_n_wees]

Looks like this recipe requires a bit of patience with chilling each layer.. this will be difficult :pfft:

Gonna give it a try next weekend. Cheers for posting it! \:D/

[Flamer]

Looks like this recipe requires a bit of patience with chilling each layer.. this will be difficult :pfft:

Gonna give it a try next weekend. Cheers for posting it! \:D/

Does that mean you'll have a slice for me when I come off stage???!!!

[teamfatboy]

That's an excellent idea - shame I can't pop a chunk in the mail :nod:

[poos_n_wees]

Does that mean you'll have a slice for me when I come off stage???!!!

Deal! \:D/

[Flamer]

Does that mean you'll have a slice for me when I come off stage???!!!

Deal! \:D/

We feelin the love!!! \:D/

[Sheta]

Sounds like this recipe has been a good contibutor to the US's obesity epidemic!

[teamfatboy]

Dunno about that - there's no HFCS in it, no corn, none of the things in the average american diet! Heck, with a bit of thought you could even make it with pure organic ingredients.

Of course, if you were to eat the whole batch in 12 hours....so maybe it does need a warning!

[emmzies]

Lol, Loving the responses, This is totally my kind of site - people actually considering the effects of the food on their body, rather then just thinking 'mmm tasty, must have'...