Chocolate Chip Apricot Bars

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		July 1995	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	oz	Dried apricots, about 1 cup
		firmly
		packed chopped
		fine
1/4	c	Granulated sugar
3/4	c	Water
1	t	Vanilla
1 1/3	c	Pecans, about 4 ounces
1	c	All-purpose flour
2/3	c	Firmly packed light brown
		sugar
1/2	t	Salt
2/3	c	Semisweet chocolate chips
1		Stick cold unsalted butter
		cut into bits 1/2
		cup
		Confectioners' sugar for
		sprinkling bars

INSTRUCTIONS

Make apricot filling:  In a 1 1/2-quart heavy saucepan combine
apricots, granulated sugar,  and water and simmer, covered, 15 minutes.
Remove lid and simmer  mixture, stirring and mashing apricots, until
excess liquid is  evaporated and filling is thickened. Stir in vanilla.
Preheat oven to 350F. and grease and flour an 8-inch-square baking
pan, knocking out excess flour.  Make chocolate chip mixture:  In a
shallow baking pan toast pecans in middle of oven until golden  brown,
8 to 10 minutes, and cool. In a food processor pulse pecans,  flour,
brown sugar, and salt until pecans are coarsely chopped. Add  chocolate
chips and butter and pulse until pecan mixture resembles  coarse
crumbs.  Press about half of chocolate chip mixture onto bottom of
prepared  baking pan and spread evenly with apricot filling. Crumble
remaining  chocolate chip mixture evenly over apricot filling, pressing
it down  slightly, and bake confection in middle of oven 1 hour, or
until  golden. Cool confection completely in pan on a rack. Sprinkle
confection with confectioners' sugar and cut into 16 bars.  Makes 16
bars.  Gourmet July 1995  Converted by MC_Buster.  Per serving: 3114
Calories (kcal); 133g Total Fat; (36% calories from  fat); 35g Protein;
492g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 1162mg Sodium  Food Exchanges: 8
Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 7 Fruit;  25 1/2 Fat; 17 1/2
Other Carbohydrates  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 2619 Calories From Fat: 1162 Total Fat: 140.3g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 1200.8mg Potassium: 2715.5mg Carbohydrates: 345.7g Fiber: 36.4g Sugar: 149.5g Protein: 36.7g