Coconut Macadamia Nut Bars
Source of Recipe
Internet
List of Ingredients
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Brown sugar
1 Egg
1 1/4 cups Flour -- sifted
1/4 teaspoon Salt
FILLING
2 Eggs
1 cup Brown sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoons Flour
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 1/2 cups Shredded coconut
1 cup Unsalted macadamia nuts -- chopped
FROSTING
1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
2 tablespoons Pineapple juice
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
Recipe
Make a pastry base by creaming butter, then adding sugar slowly. Add egg and beat until light and fluffy.
Add flour and salt to the butter-sugar mixture and blend well. Pat dough into the bottom of an oblong pan. Bake in a 350~ oven for 15 minutes, then cool. Combine filling ingredients and mix well. Pour over the cooled pastry base. Bake in a 350~ oven for 20 minutes. Cool. Spread with frosting made of powdered sugar thinned with pineapple and lemon juices. Cut into bars.