Receta Toffee Bars; the scoop on the lake
Yes, I know mon mari is a T1 diabetic.
Yes, I know that a lot of people believe that he shouldn’t have any sugar / carbs / whatever….
In fact, he can eat whatever he wants as long as he takes the appropriate insulin.
In practice, it’s not quite that simple and there are foods (pasta, bread…) that he is very cautious about.
But Christmas cookies?????
It’s only for a short time every year and it IS Christmas.
Besides, I keep them in the freezer and dole them out carefully….. (He follows the rules because if he didn’t I wouldn’t bake them at all.)
As it is, I don’t bake the cookies until right before Christmas – when it’s really too late to post the recipe as everyone else in the world already has all the Christmas cookies they need. (Note I said ‘need’ not ‘want’.)
I made these last year.
I’ll be making them again this year.
They were very, very ‘more-ish’.
I cut the usual recipe, which makes a large 13 x 9 pan, down to work with a 9″ square pan…. Fewer temptations. And the dark brown sugar made them, er, dark…. but really, really good.
Toffee Bars
Total time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup (6oz, 180gr) butter, soft
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg yolk
- 3/4 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 8oz (240gr) good dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 2/3 cup slivered almonds
- more butter for dish
9 x 9 square glass baking dish
Instructions:
Pre-heat oven, 350F (180C)
Cream butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla.
Stir in flour and salt.
Butter baking dish
Spread dough in baking dish, patting it down lightly
Bake for 20 – 25 minutes, until nicely browned.
Remove and immediately top with chocolate.
When chocolate is soft, spread evenly.
Top with almonds.
When almost cool cut into squares.
I got the official scoop on the lake today….. Direct from the farmer, himself.
We already knew it was going to be big. He expects it to take a year or so to fill up. No, I don’t know where the water is coming from…. My farm French is not the best. I did what I could….
He’s planting sunflowers this year as he / it won’t be ready for use for watering the crops yet. Then he’ll switch to alternating corn and soy beans.
There goes my hope for free veggies…..
The backhoe was broken for most of last week so no work was done, but it’s now repaired and they hope to finish by the end of the week.
And he’s going to give us a whole dump-truck full of dirt.
Merry Christmas indeed.
Last update on November 30, 2015
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