16 February 2010

Maple cornbread and Nanaimo bars

For the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympics in Canada, I made another dish using maple syrup and a Canadian dessert called Nanaimo bars. The no-bake bars are super sweet, and have three layers: a base made with chocolate, graham cracker crumbs, coconut, butter, walnuts, egg, sugar and vanilla; a middle layer of butter, milk, powdered sugar and instant vanilla pudding powder; and a topping made with butter and chocolate. The full recipe can be found here. To balance out that rich dessert, I also made maple cornbread, which was very easy to make and had a lightly sweet flavor from the syrup. This, and other maple recipes, can be found here. I have the ingredients for the cornbread below:

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup soymilk or milk
3 T butter, melted

Mix the dry ingredients together, mix the other ingredients together, and combine the two without over-stirring. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

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