walnut squares with cream cheese icing
(3 ratings)
This recipe of French origin from Laura Calder and her cookbook "Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends". These are rich and so delicious! Try one!
(3 ratings)
yield
16 servings
prep time
15 Min
cook time
25 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For walnut squares with cream cheese icing
- BASE:
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1 cflour
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2 Tbspbrown sugar
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1/2 cbutter,softened
- FILLING:
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1 cwalnuts, chopped
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1 cbrown sugar
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1/2 cunsweetened coconut
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2 Tbspflour
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2 lgeggs, lightly beaten
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1 tspvanilla
- ICING:
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4 ozcream cheese, at room temperature
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1/4 cbutter, at room temperature
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3/4 cmelted white chocolate (6 oz.)
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1/4 cpowdered sugar
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1 Tbsplemon juice
How To Make walnut squares with cream cheese icing
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1Lightly grease a 9-inch square cake pan. Set aside. Preheat oven to 325^. Base: Work together the ingredients for the base in a food processor, to make fine crumbs. Press into the prepared baking pan and bake for about 15 minutes. Test with tooth pick.
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2Filling: Stir together the filling ingredients. When the base comes out of the oven, spread this over top, return to the oven, and bake until set, about 25 minutes. Cool completely on a rack.
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3Icing: Beat the cream cheese, butter and melted chocolate until smooth. Gradually beat in the powdered sugar, and lastly the lemon juice. Chill until spreadable, about 10 minutes. Spread the icing over the cooled walnut filling and cut into diamonds.
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