Changed beyond recognition

The original idea was to bake some pesachdik (i.e. kashla”p, for the Hebraically-oriented among you) mandelbroit, using a recipe from here.

But unfortunately, that plan didn’t pass muster with TPTB (=the powers that be) – i.e. He Whose Fault It Is That We Don’t Eat Gebrochts (that would be YZG, for those of you who are just joining us now) – who felt that mixing matzah meal and apple sauce was too extreme, even according to our admittedly-lenient gebrochts standards.

And so, the Resident Ulpanistit and I took the aforementioned mandelbroit recipe and made so many additions, subtractions, and modifications, that the end result proved to be a different dessert entirely:

Non-Gebrochts Choco-Nut Bars

Adapted and altered beyond recognition from here.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs + 2 egg whites
• ⅓ cup oil (we used canola oil, but nut oil should work too)
• ¼ cup applesauce (increase sugar if you’re using unsweetened applesauce)
• ⅔ cup sugar (next year, we might try to replace half the sugar with brown sugar)
• 1 envelope vanilla sugar
• 2½ cups chopped almonds
• ¼ cup potato starch
• 1+ cup chocolate chips (next year, I’d add even more)
• (optional) brown sugar or cinnamon/sugar for topping (we used cinnamon/sugar)

Directions

Beat eggs and egg whites with oil and applesauce. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, almonds, and potato starch, and mix well. Pour batter into a 9x13 baking-paper-lined pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips over batter in the pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and use a knife to form a marble pattern (a la chocolate swirl blondies). If using cinnamon/sugar or brown sugar, sprinkle over swirled batter. Return pan to oven for an additional 30 minutes.

Remove the pan from oven. Cut into bars and let cool in pan.

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