Walnut and coconut bar cookies

30 cookies

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Unsifted all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Freshly grated nutmeg
10 tablespoons Unsalted butter, melted and cooled (1 stick + 2 tb)
1½ cup Light brown sugar
⅓ cup Granulated sugar
4 Extra-large eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1½ cup Chopped walnuts
1 cup Sweetened flaked coconut

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Whisk the butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar and eggs in a bowl. Blend in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and mix until the particles of flour are absorbed. Stir in the walnuts and coconut.

Pour and scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until just set.

Place the pan on a cooling rack. Cool completely. Cut into thirty 2¼ by 1 ¾-inch rectangles. Remove the bars from the pan using a metal spatula. Store in an airtight container.

from Baking for Gift-Giving by Lisa Yockelson typed by Tiffany Hall-Graham Submitted By TIFFANY HALL-GRAHAM On 03-25-95

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