Recipe - Best Ever Chocolate Pudding Bars

CRUST
One half cup Unsalted butter
One fourth cup White sugar
1 lg Egg yolk
1 teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
1 cup Cake flour
1/8 teaspoon Salt

FILLING
One half cup White sugar
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
6 lg Egg yolks
1 teaspoon Almond extract
1 cup Whipping cream
6 ounce Miniature semisweet
chocolate chips
1 cup Chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 8 by 8inch square baking pan with
cooking spray. In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add one egg yolk
and vanilla and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add flour and
salt and beat at low speed just until combined. Pour dough into prepared
baking pan and chill. When chilled, press into pan with floured fingers and
press dough to One fourth inch thick on bottom and sides of pan. Extend up 1 inch
of pan and chill again.

Filling: Mix together sugar and cornstarch in small mixing bowl. With
electric mixer on medium high, beat 6 yolks until light and fluffy. Add
cornstarchsugar mixture and mix on mediumhigh until combined. Add
vanilla, cream, chocolate and walnuts and blend on low, scraping bowl,
whenever necessary, until combined. Pour filling into baking pan. Bake 1
hour until filling is set and golden brown. Chill and cut into bars.
Recipe By :THE DESSERT SHOW SHOW #DS3005

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #265

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:33:02 0500

From: Meg Antczak meginny@node1.frontiernet.net