• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Meaningfulmama.com logo

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Kids
    • Active Kids
    • Activities
    • Bible Lessons
    • Crafts
    • Reading Activities
    • Math Activities
    • Science Activities
  • Character Building
  • Parenting
  • Marriage
  • Holidays
    • New Years
    • Valentine
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Easter
    • Mother’s Day
    • Father’s Day
    • Fourth of July
    • Harvest
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
  • Parties
  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Beef
    • Breads
    • Breakfast
    • Cakes
    • Chicken
    • Cookies
    • Cupcakes
    • Desserts
    • Drinks
    • Fish
    • Fun Food
    • Main Course
    • Play Recipes
    • Salad
    • Sandwiches
    • Sides
    • Snacks
  • Cakes
  • Home & DIY

Nanaimo Bars

3 Comments As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.


When I first got married, my mom and aunt put together a recipe box. The asked the guests at each of my showers to give me a few of their favorite family traditions. Fabulous idea, right? I will do a bonus blog post about it. This is one of the recipes that came from this box. It is out of my husband’s Aunt Cari’s home. It has ties to Young Life, as does she, so I’m curious if it is the recipe that Young Life uses at Camp Malibu or the state fair recipe. I’m not sure, but it’s delicious. My husband doesn’t like coconut or nuts in recipes and yet he loves these. Me too. 

Nanaimo Bars

Bottom Layer:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
4 T unsweetened cocoa powser
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

2 cups crushed graham crackers
1 cup coconut
1/2 cups crushed nuts

Combine and melt butter, sugar and cocoa powder in the top of a double boiler. Add 1 beaten egg, miking well and cooking for about 1 minute. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Mix together crushed graham crackers, coconut and chopped nuts (I like to chop mine fine). Pour original mixture in and mix all together. Pat down, firmly, in a greased 9×13″ pan.

Icing:
4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup soft butter
1/2 cup cream or milk
4 Tbsp instant vanilla pudding (dry powder)

Cream all icing ingredients together until thick and spread on top of the first layer. This is thick and difficult to spread. You can add water to your spatula to aid in the process. Refrigerate 2-3 hours.

Top Chocolate Layer::
6 ounces semisweet chocolate
4 Tbsp butter

After the bars have spent their 2-3 hours in the refrigerator, melt the chocolate and butter together in a double boiler. Spread quickly over top. Refrigerate until solid. 

Bottom Layer:

If you start them young, kids can actually be extremely helpful in the kitchen – speeding you up rather than slowing you down. As I was mixing this on the stove, Kenzie was breaking all of the graham crackers into the food processor. 


Middle Layer:

Pin It
print

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: cookies, desserts

Previous Post: « Mod Podge Recipe Box and Wedding Shower Recipe Card Gifts
Next Post: Thankfulness “I Will” Statements »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. The Better Baker

    November 19, 2012 at 4:11 am

    Oh I use to make these many years ago. They look scrumptious. I may have to make them again for the holidays…such a great treat. Awesome photos of your little helper too. =)

    Reply
  2. Seaweed and Raine

    November 20, 2012 at 9:25 am

    Ohhh, IO badly need to find a source for graham crackers in Australia!!! These look delicious!

    Reply
  3. Danise Jurado

    November 21, 2012 at 8:00 am

    Wow! those look amazing! I Pinned it to my pinterest board to try out later. Stopping by from WFMW! I am doing a little Giveaway for a couple Target gift cards… if you have time to stop by and check it out Happy Thanksgiving! Blessings

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Parenting is not easy, but it is so important. My goal is to help inspire and equip parents in a more intentional, creative and enjoyable parenting experience.

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Newsletter Sign-up

Become a part of the Meaningful Mama community to receive encouragement, ideas, tips and tricks.

More About Jodi

Jodi has a degree in education and is now a stay-at-home mom of three. She has used her experiences as a teacher, private tutor, camp counselor and youth worker and applied it to her parenting experiences. The classes she has taken in psychology, teaching kids, parenting, art and marriage all contribute to her parenting style and philosophy. She is a constant student of this thing called motherhood. Meaningful Mama embraces her passions for Jesus, motherhood, entertaining, creativity, and the culinary arts.

Footer

A Note on Copyright

Feel free to use ideas in your home and community. If you wish to share any posts or photographs from this site on your blog or website, you may use one picture with a link to the original post. Please do not repost, duplicate or re-write the whole tutorial or distribute printed content without written permission from the original author. Thank you!

Copyright © 2019 · Foodie Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Become a part of the Meaningful Mama community to receive encouragement, ideas, tips and tricks.... it's FREE!
My passion is to encourage and equip parents to be more intentional in this important role.
Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party.
  • Activities
  • Cakes
  • Character Building
  • Crafts
  • Holidays
  • Parenting
  • Parties
  • Recipes
  • About Me