Chocolate Chip Apricot Bars
| 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)
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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