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Big Red’s Halfway Squares

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Description

Wonderful squares with a meringue type top.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Butter
  • 1-½ cup Brown Sugar, Divided Use
  • ½ cups White Sugar
  • 2 whole Eggs, Separated
  • 1 Tablespoon Water
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1 cup Flour
  • ¼ teaspoons Salt
  • ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ¼ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • 1 cup Chocolate Chips
  • ½ cups Chopped Nuts

Preparation

Cream butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar in bowl with hand mixer. Add egg yolks, water and vanilla. Then add dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda) and mix together and pat into a greased 10 x 14 pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips and chopped nuts on top. The chocolate chips and chopped nuts can be left out and the cookie is still delicious.

Beat the remaining 1 cup brown sugar and the two egg whites till stiff peaks form. Gently spread on top of chocolate chips and nuts. Spread to the edge of the pan.

Bake for 20 minutes at 350 F, cool and cut into squares.

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Regina on 10.27.2010

These are awesome! Can’t wait to give them out during the holidays! I need to figure out a simpler name tho…LOL….Thanks for a great recipe!

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culinarycapers on 10.11.2010

Wow these look so good! and I think they will be part of my christmas cookie boxes too!

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cassymfa on 10.11.2010

Funny!!! I just made these yesterday (from another recipe). They are DELICIOUS!!!!!!

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Regina on 10.10.2010

Cannot wait to try these! NanaBread has a great idea for them!

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Jeanne (aka NanaBread) on 10.10.2010

These sound great! I’ll have to try them for my Christmas cookie boxes this year. Thanks for sharing it.

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mezmerelda on 1.10.2011

These bars were very tasty and easy to make. I did get several comments that they were a bit too sweet, so I cut back the sugar on the bars the second time around and that seemed to help.

I know all ovens are different, but I found that I needed to bake these for about 27 minutes for them to be done, and my oven is normally spot on for times.

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Regina on 10.27.2010

Very easy to make and OH! so good! If you are like me, be patient with the meringue….it will work!

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