Bar cookie - Hungarian Pastry
an easy bar recipe for the family to enjoy!
Equipment
- 1 9x13 pan
Ingredients
- ¼ pound Butter room temperature
- ½ cup Sugar Plus 2 tablespoons
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 large eggs separated
- 1½ cups flour
- 1 pinch baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ cup jam I used raspberry
- 1 cup ground nuts I used pecans
Instructions
- pre-heat oven to 325℉
- cream butter and sugar together until smoothed. Add the vanilla and the egg yolks and cream together well. Add flour with the soda and powder and mix well.
- spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray and add the dough, patting and flattening out to all the edges.
- I heated up the jelly just a bit to loosen it up so I could spread it all over the dough easier. Add about ½ of the ground nuts all over the jelly/jam.
- in a stand mixer or by hand beat the egg whites till frothy. Spread those over the nuts and jelly. And then mix the 2 tablespoons of sugar with the remaining ½ cup of nuts and spread this over the egg whites
- bake for 30 minutes. When cooled cut into 2 squares.