Description

This amazing dessert is a classic Canadian Christmas dessert. But, you don't have to be Canadian to enjoy them and to add them to your Christmas recipes. They are prepared with a graham cracker crust with walnuts and coconut and chocolate, a buttery custa

Ingredients

• Bottom Layer:
• 1/2 c. butter
• 1/4 c. plus 1 T. (5 T.) cocoa powder
• 1/4 c. white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 3/4 c. graham cracker crumbs
• 3/4 c. fine coconut
• 1/4 c. chopped walnuts
• Middle Layer:
• 3 c. powdered sugar
• 3/4 c. butter, softened
• 1/4 c. milk
• 1/4 c. (Bird's) vanilla custard powder
• Top Layer:
• 8 oz. shaved dark chocolate or chocolate chips (about 2 1/4 c.)
• 4 T. butter

Steps

1. Bottom Layer:
2. Lay a piece of parchment paper in a 9 × 11 inch pan, letting some hang over the sides, which makes it easier to remove the bars.
3. Melt butter in a medium-sized pot over medium heat; whisk in cocoa powder and sugar. Remove pot from the heat; add the egg; whisk until it has thickened, about 30 seconds. Stir in graham cracker crumbs, coconut and walnuts. Press the crust firmly into the prepared pan.