Chocolate Hazelnut Bars
Chocolate Hazelnut Bars. Rich, chocolate topping - something in between a custard, a ganache and a fudge - over a buttery hazelnut crust. Not your average, everyday cookie bar or brownie.
Ingredients
- For Crust:
- 1/3 cup hazelnut meal/flour
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons cold salted butter cut into pieces
- For Chocolate Topping:
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tablespoons salted butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
Instructions
- For Crust:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grease/spray an 8" or 9" square baking dish.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together hazelnut flour, sugar and flour.
- Using a pastry blender, cut in cold butter pieces until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Press the mixture evenly into baking dish.
- Bake for 22 - 25 minutes or until edges are lightly golden brown.
- Cool on wire rack until topping is ready.
- For topping:
- In a saucepan over medium heat, whisk together water and butter until melted and combined.
- Whisk in sugar, cocoa powder and salt until thoroughly combined.
- Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla.
- Let mixture cool down for a few minutes, whisk in eggs until blended.
- Pour/scrape chocolate topping onto crust.
- Bake at 350° until set - about 16 -20 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Cut into squares. If storing for a few days, I keep this in the fridge. Remove from fridge an hour or two before serving.
Notes
You'll think the chocolate layer looks rather thin when topping off the hazelnut crust - trust me - it's plenty. It puffs up a bit when baking and is plenty rich for the crust to topping ratio.
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