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Bars: Aunt Eva's Mud Hen Bars

Source of Recipe

Missey


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs (2 of the eggs should be separated)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 cup mini marshmallows
1 cup brown sugar


Recipe

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Cream together butter and white sugar until completely blended.
Beat in one whole egg and 2 egg yolks. Reserve whites for meringue topping.
Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Mix until blended.
Spread into a foil covered 9x13 pan. (Tip: I like to cover my pan with foil, leaving plenty hanging over the ends. When the bars cool I can lift the entire pan of bars out- this makes them so much easier to cut.)
Sprinkle the nuts, chocolate chips and nuts evenly over the batter.
Beat reserved egg whites until stiff. Fold in brown sugar. (Tip: To prevent lumps, sift your brown sugar before adding it to the whites.)
Spread the egg white meringue mixture evenly over nuts, chips and marshmallows.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, until batter is set and meringue is lightly browned and crunchy on top.
Cool completely. Using the foil hanging over the edges of the pan, gently lift the baked bars out of the pan. Peel the foil away and cut into bars. Enjoy!