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Best Raisin Bars Recipe


Best Raisin Bars Recipe
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Here's an old-fashioned raisin bar recipe that uses coffee to soften the raisins which adds a great flavor to the recipe. The cream cheese frosting just makes the baked bars even better! This is just a delicious and simple recipe that anyone can make... More

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup hot, strong coffee
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup melted regular butter (don't substitute)
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1 cup of chopped walnuts
  • (You can add 1 cup of chocolate chips if you wish)
  • CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
  • 1, 8 oz. pkg. of room temperature cream cheese
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 stick of butter (do not substitue!)

Directions
  1. Pour hot coffee over raisins, cool to lukewarm.
  2. Stir in sugar, melted butter and the beaten egg.
  3. *
  4. Stir together flour, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
  5. Add raisin mixture and mix well.
  6. Pour batter into greased 15 x 10 x 1 inch baking pan.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Cool. Spread with frosting. And use up all that frosting, too!
  8. **Frosting
  9. Mix the cream cheese and butter together with the vanilla.
  10. Slowly add the powdered sugar.
  11. Mix until smooth and fluffy (I use a KitchenAid mixer on low)

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Comments


Coffe and raisins!! woww..this is new..Thanks for sharing this one.The frosting is my favourite one..


I cannot wait to try this....my grandmother (born in 1883) used to make a bar cookie she called "French cookies". I had the recipe, but lost it and unable to find it again...however, this may be just what she made for it looks and sounds so similar...the coffee, raisins & walnuts - even the icing! Thanks much!


How divine, will be making these!


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