Foody Friday: Desserts

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This week is super tricky as my favorite foods all revolve around desserts. Chocolate is a main food group right?! (Confession time...it is a staple in my diet though I do try to keep it out of my son's. However, he does know where I keep my secret stash of dark chocolate M&M's. If I want some without sharing I have to be pretty tricky, like hide in the bathroom.) Here is a family fave that I serve up for friends or just us. The recipe has often been requested when I bring it to share so here goes...

Toffee Triangles (from the Better Homes and Gardens New Baking Book)

Prep: 25 min.
Bake: 33 min.
Oven: 350 degrees
Makes: 36 bars

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt

1 - 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 Tbsp. butter
2 tsp. vanilla

1 - 12oz package semisweet chocolate chips/pieces
1 cup almond brickle pieces or toasted chopped pecans


Step 1: Grease a 13x9x2 in baking pan; set aside. In a large mixing bowl beat 3/4 cup butter and brown sugar until well combined. Add egg yolk, beat well. Stir in flour and salt; mix well. With floured hands, press dough into prepared pan.

Step 2: Bake in a 350 oven for about 20 minutes or until light brown. Transfer to a wire rack.

Step 3: For filling, in a heavy saucepan heat condensed milk and 2 tbsp. butter until bubbly, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for five minutes more. (Mixture will thicken and become smooth.) Stir in vanilla. Spread filling over baked layer. Bake in the 350 oven for 12 to 15 minutes more or until top layer is golden.

Step 4: Sprinkle baked layers evenly with chocolate pieces. Bake 1 to 2 minutes more or until pieces are shiny and melted. Remove from oven; transfer to a wire rack. Immediately spread chocolate evenly over baked layer. Sprinkle with brickle pieces or pecans. Cool. Cover and chill until chocolate is set. Cut into 3x2 rectangles; cut diagonally into triangles. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.

There are actually nutrition facts along with each recipe in this book which is nice, but yet this one is a dessert. Let's just focus on the fact that it contains 4% calcium per bar. Add a glass of milk to wash it down and it's practically better for you than fruit!

Oh, by the way. I don't add anything to the top layer but the chocolate! Brickle and toasting pecans puts it off the easy does it chart for me. We enjoy it just fine without the fancy stuff.

I am salivating just typing this recipe. I don't have the ingredients on hand or I could be enjoying them myself along with showing you a picture. Well, maybe next Friday I will be that organized. Then again, don't get your hopes up. If I have another day like yesterday I will not have any extra time!

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