O Henry Bar

Yield

9×9 pan

Ingredients

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup butter or margarine
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 cup graham wafer crumbs
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup coconut

Directions

  1. Bring first 3 ingredients to boil for one minute. Take off stove and add remaining 3 ingredients.
  2. Meanwhile:
  3. Cover bottom of 12 X 7 pan with whole graham wafers. Top with filling, and cover with another layer of graham wafers(crackers). Press down.
  4. Ice with butter icing. We usually add red food colouring to icing to make pink icing.

Nanaimo Bars

Yield

9×9 pan

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 5 tbsp cocoa
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cup graham cracker
  • 1 cup coconut
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions

  1. Place softened butter, sugar, cocoa, vanilla and eff in bowl. Set bowl in dish of boiling water. Stir well until butter has melted and mixture resembles custard.
  2. Combine graham wafer crumbs, coconut and nuts, blending well. Add to cooked mixture. Pack evenly in square pan, Spread with icing
  3. Special Icing
  4. Cream ¼ cup butter, Add 3 tbsp milk which has been combined with 2 tbsp vanilla custard powder. Blend in 2 cups sifted icing sugar. Spread over base.

Mixed Nut Bar

This recipe came from Betty Brown – It is so…….. good. Salty and sweet.

Yield

9×13 pan

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 can mixed nuts
  • 1 – 12 oz pkg butterscotch chips
  • 2 tbsp butter or margarine
  • 1/2 cup light corn syrup

Directions

  1. combine flour, salt , sugar, butter into 9 X 13 pan. Bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
  2. Spread mixed nuts over baked crust.
  3. Meanwhile, melt over low heat on in microwave,butterscotch chips, butter and corn syrup. Be careful not to boil. Heat till just melted. Drizzle melted topping over mixed nuts.
  4. Bake in 350 oven for 10 minutes only! Cool and cut in small pieces.

Mandarin Orange Cake

Maxine

Yield

1 cake

Ingredients

  • 1 white or yellow cake mix
  • 1 can (11 oz.) mandarin oranges and juice
  • ½ cup oil
  • 4 eggs – beat well
  • 1 – 8 oz. can crushed pineapple
  • 1 vanilla instant pudding

Directions

  1. Combine first 4 ingredients. Bake at 350º for 35 to 40 minutes. You can use either two nine inch layer cake pans or a 9 X 13 cake pan
  2. Mix together pineapple and pudding and put on top of cake, and between layers
  3. Keep refrigerated.

Magic Bar

Yield

9×13 pan

Ingredients

  • See directions

Directions

  1. In cake pan put
  2. ½ cup melted butter
  3. 1 cup graham crackers
  4. 1 6oz pkg coconut
  5. 1 6oz pkg. butterscotch chips
  6. 1 6oz pkg. chocolate chips
  7. 1 cup chopped walnuts
  8. 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
  9. Bake in 350º oven for 20 minutes