Dream Bars – Feeling a little spontaneous

Sometimes exactly what we are looking for can be right in front of our face and we don't see it. For this week's recipe I found exactly what I needed on the back of the ingredient I wanted to use. I have a bag of coconut that I have been wanting to use up. It is taking up space in my pantry and it is not like extra chocolate chips that I could just pop in my mouth as I am walking by. And I don't think I could incorporate it in my regular dinner meals. Spaghetti & Coconut just doesn't sound right unless I lived in the Caribbean. So as I had it in my hand pondering the mental recipe book in my head and before heading to my internet recipe book I glanced down and saw it....Dream Bars! Something new, something easy, something I had the ingredients for already. They are baking right now and if they turn out nice I am taking some to share at a Training class I am doing tomorrow. A little treat to make our 8 hour day of lecture a little sweeter.

As a side note, I added RSS feed and email subscriptions to my blog this week (upper right corner). So in case you forget to check it each week you can now get it sent directly to you. I just didn’t want my fans to miss out of any Baker Babe Action!!!

Dream Bars (taken from Chef's Select Coconut Package)

1 1/2 cups Flour
2 Cups Brown Sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups coconut

Combine flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar and butter until it makes a crumble mixture. Press into bottom of ungreased 13 x 9 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Beat 1 1/2 cups brown sugar with eggs just until blended. Mix in remaining ingredients. Spread over baked crust. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool and then cut into bars.