Dream Bars

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Appears in Cook's Country April​/May 2009

We wanted chewy, toffee-flavored layer bars that shouted coconut and pecans. Getting back to the original recipe was a good first step.

SERVES Makes 24 bars

TIME 2½ hours, plus 2⅓ hours cooling

Dream Bars

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Even the simplest recipes for Dream Bars we tested were too sweet for modern tastes, and the coconut and pecans all but disappeared because the sugar was so forward. To bring out the pecan flavor, we toasted the nuts until they were crunchy...

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