Black Bottom Slice

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1/2 cup butter; softened
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup brown sugar; packed
1 ts. flour
1 ts. baking powder
1 ts. vanilla
1 cup coconut
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1. Crumble the butter, cocoa, sugar, and flour together.
2. Press into a foil lined 9x9 inch pan.
3. Bake in a 350 F oven for 15 minutes.
4. Beat eggs until frothy; add the sugar flour, baking powder, vanilla, coconut, and nuts.
5. Stir to combine and spread over bottom layer.
6. Bake in a 350 F oven for 30 minutes; cool.
7. When cool, frost with chocolate butter icing.
ICING
1 1/4 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
3 Tbsp. butter; softened
5 ts. hot coffee
1. Measure all together in a small bowl.
2. Beat well. Add more liquid or icing sugar as needed for easy spreading.
3. Spread over cooled bars.
4. Cut into 36 pieces.

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2008 at 11:45 AM

    Manshallah, jazakullah khayr sister. I will try to make this, it looks very delicious.

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    Manshallah, this already looks amazing before I even tried it!!!

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