I have always loved Nanaimo Bars mainly because of the creamy frosting layer as chocolate isn’t high on my favourite’s list. I find as I get older though my thoughts on chocolate have been changing. Now I appreciate a good brownie or slice of decadent chocolate cake once in a while. Perusing through one of my favourite cookbooks on a hot afternoon at the lake I came across Nanaimo Bars and realized that I had never made this classic. So the day’s goal was set. That decision required a trip to town for ingredients as coconut and walnuts aren’t something I regularly use. So after a trip to our local bulk store I was ready. The first recipe I had found called for adding the egg to the melted butter and sugar and no baking- this just didn’t sit with me so then the digging began. I found most recipes didn’t require baking of the bottom base layer but some did. So I took a little from each and came up with this decadent bar.
