CALYPSO BARS

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A chocolate date bar. My childhood memories of holidays included these bars from my mother's friend Bernie. Wonderfully rich.

Provided by lynnielyn

Categories Desserts Cookies Fruit Cookie Recipes Date

Time 55m

Yield 30

Number Of Ingredients 13

Ingredients

1 ⅓ cups chopped dates
2 ½ (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
⅔ cup water
1 ⅓ cups white sugar
¼ cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar
¾ cup butter
1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x10-inch baking pan.
Cook and stir dates, chocolate, water, white sugar, and 1/4 cup butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and thickened, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract. Set aside to cool.
Beat brown sugar and 3/4 cup butter together in a bowl until creamy. Add oats, flour, walnuts, baking soda, and salt; stir until texture is crumbly.
Press half the oat mixture into bottom of the prepared pan. Evenly spread chocolate-date mixture over oat mixture layer; crumble remaining oat mixture over chocolate-date layer.
Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 30 small squares.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 221.5 calories, Carbohydrate 32.6 g, Cholesterol 16.3 mg, Fat 10.3 g, Fiber 1.9 g, Protein 2.3 g, SaturatedFat 4.9 g, Sodium 107.2 mg, Sugar 23 g