These orange slice cookie bars are a wonderful treat that’s just the perfect balance between sweet decadence and wholesome, old-fashioned goodness.
Old-fashioned orange slice cookie bars and cookies trace their popularity back to the mid-20th century; particularly the 1940s and 1950s. They became a traditional fixture at holiday cookie exchanges, family gatherings, and church potlucks across the Midwest and Southern United States.
Ingredients
- ▢ — 4 eggs
- ▢ — 2 cups brown sugar
- ▢ — 2 cups plain flour (not self-rising)
- ▢ — 1 tsp baking powder
- ▢ — 1 tsp cinnamon
- ▢ — ½ tsp salt
- ▢ — 2 tsp vanilla
- ▢ — 1 cup walnuts or pecans
- ▢ — 1 lb orange candy slices (cut into fine pieces)
Instructions
- ▢ — Mix sliced candies with flour and stir to coat each slice.
- ▢ — Add nuts, brown sugar and eggs (beaten) along with the vanilla, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
- ▢ — Spread on greased cookie sheet.
- ▢ — Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
- ▢ — Cool in pan.
- ▢ — Cut into squares and sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar (sifted) if you like.
- ▢ — Makes about 24 squares.
Nutrition
- Calories 216
- Protein 2.9 g
- Total Fat 4.3 g
- — Unsaturated Fat 3.7 g
- — Saturated Fat 0.6 g
- Cholesterol 30.8 mg
- Sodium 132 mg
- Carbohydrates 49.1 g
- — Net Carbs 48.4 g
- — Fiber 0.7 g
- Sugars 37.1 g
Carol
October 8, 2022 1:38 pmWhat size pan?