Desserts: Buckwheat Walnut Bars

A sweet and crunchy buckwheat snack!

Serves: 35 squares

Ingredients

  • Crust: 1/2 cup Pocono Buckwheat Flour
  • Crust: 2/3 cup powdered sugar
  • Crust: 1 and 1/2 cup unbleached white flour
  • Crust:1/2 tsp. salt
  • Crust: 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • Crust: 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
  • Topping: 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
  • Topping: 1 tsp. vanilla
  • Topping: 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • Topping: 1/2 cup buckwheat honey
  • Topping: 1/2 cup cream or milk
  • Topping: 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • Topping: 3 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped

Directions

  1. Crust:
    Grease a 9 x 12 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Mix confectioners sugar, flour, buckwheat flour, salt & cinnamon.
  3. Add butter – cut in with a fork or pastry blender. Mix till fine crumbs form. Pat into the baking pan. Bake for 20 min., then remove from oven.
  4. Topping:
    Melt butter. Mix in remaining ingredients. Spread over crust.
  5. Put in the oven and bake for 25 to 30 min. longer. Cool completely.