Coffee Cookie Bars
(from JenniferGM’s recipe box)
A hearty cookie, moist and tasty – a fine coffee accompaniment.
Mom used to make these, very good! Delicious with morning coffee and after-dinner coffee.
Source: Margaret Gregory, taken from Homemade Cookies by the Food Editors of Farm Journal, p. 52.
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Categories: Desserts; Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup hot, strong coffee
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- Caramel Icing (recipe follows)
Directions
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Cream sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
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Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and add alternately with hot coffee to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins and nuts.
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Spread dough in greased 13 × 9 × 2” pan. Bake in moderate oven (350° F) 25 minutes. While hot, spread with Caramel Icing. Set pan on rack to cool, then cut in 2×1” bars. Makes about 4 dozen.
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Caramel Icing: Combine 3 Tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed, 3 Tablespoons butter and 1 Tablespoon dairy half-and-half, light cream or milk in 1-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and gradually add 1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar, beating constantly, until lumps of sugar disappear. Makes enough to ice cookies baked in a 13×9×2” pan.