Raisin Cinnamon Bars

Submitted by sweetysjd

"These are really good for a sweet tooth. They are relativly low in fat and sodium. You could add chopped nuts too, but I prefer them without."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 18

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup butter, soft
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1⁄2 cup brewed coffee, hot
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup raisins

• ICING

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 -5 teaspoons water

directions

1. In a bowl, combine butter and brown sugar until crumbly. Add egg and mix well. Gradually beat in coffee.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add to the coffee mixture; mix well. Stir in raisins.
3. Transfer to a 13x9x2-inch baking pan coated with nonstick spray. Bake at 350 degrees 18-20 minutes, until edges pull away from sides of pan and toothpick comes out clean.
4. Cool 5 minutes.
5. In a bowl, combine powdered sugar, vanilla and enough water to make it spreading consistency. Spread on warm bars.

Reviews

[Lucky in Bayview]

I love these bars! They aren't overly rich like some bars can be. The coffee flavor is subtle and the recipe wouldn't be near as good without it. For whatever reason, I needed to bake them for about 35 mins and they wanted to stick to the pan. Next time, I think I'll line the pan with parchment paper. Thanks for sharing this keeper recipe.

 

[CoffeeB]

Well, I can say I can't give this a real fair review as I totally messed up the recipe by adding a full stick of butter.:-) So that's why the 5 stars:YUMMY: Maybe a blessing, maybe not. This is what happens when I'm attempting to make more than one recipe at a time. Anyway, these are heavenly little bars Sweety. I did not make the icing for the top and instead spinkled with a mixture of cinnamon/sugar. I didn't think it needed anymore fat grams!! Made for 123 HitWonders and March's CoffeePhoto Tag~

 

[BakerG]

me and my friends just devoured this recipe. delicious! I now use the icing on lots of baked treats because it was really good, too.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

This was good, I did increase the raisins to 1 cup and also added in 2 teaspoons vanilla, for the icing I used 18% table cream with powdered sugar and drizzled it on top of the bars instead of spreading, thanks for sharing Sweety!...Kitten:)