Kentucky Derby Bars

Kentucky Derby Bars person a graham cracker crust and a gooey, saccharine pecan, walnut, and cocoa spot filling. Wonderfully saccharine and cleanable for a Kentucky Derby party.

Graham Cracker Crust

A graham cracker crust tastes large with practically immoderate benignant of filling. You tin usage either regular graham crackers oregon cocoa for other cocoa flavor. Regular graham cracker crumbs tin beryllium purchased successful a container oregon you tin marque them by processing graham crackers successful a nutrient processor until finely ground. If you don’t person a nutrient processor, spot them successful a ziptop container and crush them with a rolling pin oregon dense pan.

Gooey Sweet Filling

The gooey filling is afloat of walnuts, pecans, and cocoa chips. Brown sugar, positive airy and acheronian maize syrup marque it wonderfully sweet. Three eggs assistance the filling acceptable up.

Wait for the bars to chill wholly earlier slicing. These bars sensation large with a scoop of vanilla crystal pick oregon a dollop of caller whipped cream.

Substitutions

Instead of utilizing 1 cupful walnuts and 1 cupful pecans, you tin usage each walnuts oregon each pecans.

I similar the spirit of a operation of airy maize syrup and acheronian maize syrup, but you tin usage each 1 oregon the other.

Dark brownish sweetener tin beryllium utilized alternatively of airy brownish sugar.

Storage

Bars tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia successful an airtight instrumentality for 5 days.

More Derby Day Recipes

• Kentucky Chocolate Walnut Pie
• Kentucky Bourbon Butter Cake
• Mint Julep Cupcakes
• Bourbon Balls

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Kentucky Derby Bars

Kentucky Derby Bars person a graham cracker crust and a gooey, saccharine pecan, walnut, and cocoa spot filling. Wonderfully saccharine and cleanable for a Kentucky Derby party.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Southern

Keyword chocolate, pecans, walnuts

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Servings 12

Calories 678kcal

Ingredients

• 3 cups graham cracker crumbs, regular oregon chocolate
• 1/2 cup salted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg white, lightly beaten

Filling

• 1 cup packed airy brownish sugar
• 1/2 cup light maize syrup
• 1/2 cup dark maize syrup
• 1/4 cup salted buttter, melted
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 (12-ounce) bag semi-sweet cocoa chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and enactment a 9×13-inch cookware with aluminum foil. Spray it good with cooking spray with flour.
• In a mean bowl, disturbance unneurotic the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sweetener and ovum white.

  Press into the bottommost of the prepared baking dish.
• Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool.
• In a ample bowl, whisk unneurotic brownish sugar, airy maize syrup, and acheronian maize syrup.
• Whisk successful melted butter, eggs, vanilla and salt.
• Stir successful nuts and cocoa chips.

  Pour implicit crust.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Let chill wholly earlier slicing.

Nutrition

Calories: 678kcal

Recipe adapted from Southern Lady Magazine

The station Kentucky Derby Bars appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.