What you need
For Graham Cracker
Whole Wheat flour: 1 cup
All purpose flour: ¼ cup
Brown sugar: ½ cup
Baking soda: ½ teaspoon
Salt: ⅓ teaspoon
Butter: 3.5 tablespoon
Honey: half of ⅓ cup
Whole milk: 2.5 tablespoon
Ground Cinnamon: 1 tablespoon
Vanilla extract: 1 tablespoon
How I made
In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade, combine the flours, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt. Pulse or mix to incorporate all the ingredients. Add the butter and pulse on and off, until the mixture is the consistency of a coarse meal. If making by hand, combine the forementioned dry ingredients with a whisk, then cut in butter until you have a coarse meal. No chunks of butter should be visible.
In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, whisk together the honey, milk and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture until the dough barely comes together. It will be very soft and sticky.
Turn the dough onto a surface well-floured with sweet rice flour and pat the dough into a rectangle about 1 inch thick. Wrap in plastic and chill until firm, about 2 hours, or overnight.
Divide the dough in half and return one half to the refrigerator. Sift an even layer of flour onto the work surface and roll the dough into a long rectangle, about ⅛ inches thick. The dough will be quite sticky, so flour as necessary. Cut into 4 by 4 inch squares. I cut it 2 by 2 inch squares. Gather the scraps together and set aside. Place wafers on one or two parchment-lined baking sheets. Chill until firm, about 30 to 45 minutes. Repeat with the second batch of dough.
Adjust the rack to the upper and lower positions and preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Gather the scraps together into a ball, chill until firm, and reroll. Dust the surface with more sweet rice flour and roll out the dough to get a couple more wafers.
Prick the wafers with toothpick or fork, not all the way through, in two or more rows.
Bake for 15-25 minutes, until browned and slightly firm to the touch, rotating sheets halfway through to ensure even baking. Might take less, and the starting location of each sheet may determine its required time. The ones that started on the bottom browned faster.
When cooled completely, place enough wafers in food processor to make ½ cups of crumbs. Another way to do this is to place in a large zip loc bag, force all air out and smash with a rolling pin until wafers are crumbs.
For Nanaimo Bars
For Nanaimo Bars — Bottom Layer
Unsalted Butter: ¼ cup
Granulated Sugar: ⅛cup
Unsweetened Cocoa: 2.5 tablespoon
Flax seed meal: 1 tablespoon
Water: 3 tablespoon
Graham Wafer Crumbs: ½ cup
Blanched toasted Almonds (Finely chopped): ¼cup
Coconut (Shredded, unsweetened):½cup
For Nanaimo Bars — Middle Layer
Unsalted Butter: ¼ cup
Milk: ¼ cup
Mango Custard Powder: 11/2 tablespoon
Cornstarch: 2 tablespoon
Icing Sugar: ½ cup
For Nanaimo Bars — Top Layer
Semi-sweet chocolate: 2 ounce
Unsalted Butter: 1 tablespoon
Preparation time:
Graham Wafers: 30 to 45 minutes total active prep, 2 ½ hours to overnight and 45 minutes inactive prep.
Nanaimo Bars: 30 minutes
Yield: Graham Crackers: 25
Nanaimo Bars: 8 pieces
Verdict: Really good
Will you make it again: I don’t know afraid of sugar content
Swathi
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Swathi says
Devi, Vinola, Lauren, kalai and Ramya thanks for stopping by.
Ramya Vijaykumar says
Fabulous, am all drooling looking at your nanaimo bars... Would love to grab a piece from your plate he he... My first visit here, I see what a wonderful job you have done with a lil one back home... Shall keep coming back for more...
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Lauren says
Fantastic job! I love your take on my challenge =D.
suvaiyaana suvai says
Wow! yummy mango flavoured nanimo bar!!
Kalai says
Nice one Swathi!
Akal's Saappadu says
mano flavoured Nanaimo bars sound interesting and wonderful work with the homemade Graham Crackers!!! delicious!!!
Devi Meyyappan says
Both looks great Swathi, absolutely tempting!! :).. I've never heard of Nanaimo Bars, thank you for starting with an introduction to it!.. looks lovely!
Swathi says
sushma, Rachel,Deepa, Tina, Priya,mrs chit chat, sheeba, Rachana, Nithu, Malar,Padhu, Vrinda, Deepa and Siddhi thank you .
Siddhi S says
wow swati this bar luks damn tempting...very nice stuffing...ur efforts r worth...
Deepa G Joshi says
these look so ravishing..especially the mango flavor makes it more desirable..too good.
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Vrinda says
Bars look perfect and yumm..never tried these,will giv a try
Padhu says
Looks tempting and delicious!
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Malar Gandhi says
Wow...I am simply speachless, that looks out of this world, so gorgeous...soooo inviting, tempting pictures for sure:):)
Nithu Bala says
Yummy..very tempting..you have done it very nicely Dear 🙂
Rachana Kothari says
hmmm...nanaimo bars look really good and yummmm
forkbootsandapalette says
mango flavour..sounds GOOD
Ms.Chitchat says
Wow, yummy mango flavoured nanimo bar. Looks like lot of work, but ur outcome is worth the effort :):) Pic looks nice.
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Priya says
Wow mango flavoured nanaimo bar, looks yummm!!
Tina says
Looks gud and tempting...
Hamaree Rasoi says
Great recipe for my FIL as it has less sugar in it. Looks good too...
Rachel says
love that you tried a fruity flavour.
Sushma Mallya says
wow it looks so good and tempting ...beautiful bars and a very unique dessert too...really worth ur efforts swathi