5 Star Bars. Extra a confection than a cookie bar with coconut and graham crumbs suspended in chewy caramel like base, topped with chocolate. Make and bake them in solely a few half hour; an actual Newfoundland favorite, particularly across the Holidays.
5 Star Bars. Simply combine and bake!
Initially printed Nov 2012.
Once more as we speak, Rock Recipes is that includes one other cookie by request, these delicious 5 Star Bars. Over the past couple of years in our annual cookie march to Christmas, I’ve obtained a number of requests for a recipe for this specific bar cookie.
Superb reduce dried (desiccated) unsweetened coconut is the sort to make use of on this recipe.
It’s a native favorite right here and I’ve seen them in lots of native bakeries for years however by no means had made them earlier than. I don’t know why?
They couldn’t be simpler to make or be extra mushy, chewy and caramel-y scrumptious. They freeze rather well too.
5 Star Bars.
5 Star Bars. Really easy to make!
The kind of chocolate melted on prime is totally your selection. Milk chocolate is what’s historically used, as within the pictures above. Milk Chocolate chips are a wonderful simple selection.
Aero Chocolate Bar
Some older recipes even name for chopped milk chocolate bars like an Aero bar right here in Canada, in all probability as a result of they soften so simply.
Nevertheless, I most frequently make them with darkish chocolate on prime myself as a result of I’ve all the time most popular it.
5 Star Bars, proven with a darkish chocolate topping.
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Prep Time:
10 minutes
Prepare dinner Time:
20 minutes
Whole Time:
half-hour
5 Star Bars are extra a confection than a cookie bar with coconut and graham crumbs suspended in chewy caramel like base, topped with chocolate.
Components
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 cups unsweetened coconut
- A ten ounce can sweetened condensed milk (300 ml dimension in Canada)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the highest
- 1 cup chocolate chips, use your choice of milk chocolate, semi candy or darkish
- ( Historically right here in Newfoundland, we use melted milk chocolate sweet bars. Aero bars are thee most frequently used however any good high quality milk chocolate will suffice. Use about 6-8 oz of milk chocolate, chopped.)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 levels F.
- Combine collectively the butter, graham crumbs, coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla.
- Press right into a parchment paper lined 9 x 9 pan.
- Bake in a 350 diploma oven for 20 minutes or till agency.
- As quickly as they arrive out of the oven, sprinkle the chocolate chips excessive of the recent cookie bars.
- Let stand for five to 10 minutes to permit the chocolate to soften, then unfold evenly excessive.
- Permit the bars to chill to room temperature earlier than chopping into cookie bars or squares.
- Retailer in an hermetic container. These cookie bars freeze nicely too.
Notes
The dietary data offered is routinely calculated by third celebration software program and is supposed as a suggestion solely. Actual accuracy will not be assured. For recipes the place all substances will not be used solely, equivalent to these with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for instance, calorie & dietary values per serving will doubtless be considerably decrease than indicated.
Diet Info
Yield
24
Serving Dimension
1 sq.
Quantity Per Serving
Energy 190Whole Fats 11gSaturated Fats 8gTrans Fats 0gUnsaturated Fats 3gLdl cholesterol 11mgSodium 72mgCarbohydrates 22gFiber 2gSugar 16gProtein 3g
The dietary data offered is routinely calculated by third celebration software program and is supposed as a suggestion solely. Actual accuracy will not be assured. For recipes the place all substances will not be used solely, equivalent to these with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for instance, calorie & dietary values per serving will doubtless be considerably decrease than indicated.
