Apricot Bars
A delicious sweet and tangy apricot filling is surrounded by a coconut, walnut crust and crumble topping. Its difficult to keep a batch of these delicious Apricot Bars around.
Servings 24 Bars
Calories 197kcal
Ingredients
For Filling:
- 2 1/2 Cups Drained cooked apricots
- 3/4 Cups Sugar
- 1/4 Cup Apricot juice or water
For Crust and Crumble topping:
- 2 Cups All purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 3/4 Cup Unsalted butter
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 1/2 Cups Shredded coconut
- 1/2 Cup Chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Prepare filling:
- Cook apricots, sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat for about 5 minutes or until it has thickened slightly. Remove from heat and cool.
Prepare crust and topping:
- Sift Flour, salt and baking soda together in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add dry ingredients to form a crumb mixture.
- Stir in the coconut and walnuts.
- Press 3 cups of crumb mixture into a greased 9x13 pan.
- Bake crust in oven for 10 minutes.
- Remove and add filling and top with remainder of crumb mixture.
- Return to oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- Cool and cut into bars.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Bar | Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 135mg | Potassium: 84mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 490IU | Vitamin C: 1.7mg | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 0.7mg