Buttermilk Bars Recipes

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring butter, cocoa and water just to a boil. Cool. , Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Add cocoa mixture and buttermilk; mix well. Beat in the eggs, vanilla and, if desired, food coloring. Pour into a greased and floured 15x10x1-in. baking pan. , Bake until set, 20 minutes. For frosting, melt butter with cocoa and buttermilk. Stir in the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and salt. Spread over warm cake. Garnish with nuts if desired.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. In a large mixing, combine flour, sugars and butter. Mix at low speed until crumbled well.
• 2. Press 2 cups of mixture into ungreased 9x13 baking pan. To remaining crumb mixture add your nuts, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, buttermilk, vanilla and egg and blend well. Pour evenly over crumb crust.
• 3. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and tests done in the center with toothpick.
• 4. To make glaze-blend all ingredients until smooth. streusel glaze all around the surface of the bars. Cut into bars and serve after they have cooled a bit.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Adjust an oven rack to upper-middle position. Spray a donut pan with cooking spray.
• Sift flour, sugar, cornstarch, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt together in a large mixing bowl.
• Whisk buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla extract together in a smaller bowl.
• Pour melted and cooled shortening into flour mixture and stir until absorbed. Add buttermilk mixture and mix well. Let batter rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Pour a scant tablespoon of batter into the well of each donut cup in the prepared pan. Use the back of a spoon to distribute batter evenly across the bottom of each; you won't use up all of the batter in this batch.
• Bake in the preheated oven on the upper-middle rack until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven; let cool in the pan for 2 to 3 minutes before removing onto a wire rack.
• Place powdered sugar into a small paper bag. Toss warm doughnuts in powdered sugar to coat.
• Spray the donut pan with cooking spray again. Spoon batter in tablespoonfuls into the hot pan for the next batch.
• Bake donuts in the preheated oven on the upper-middle rack until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool for 2 to 3 minutes before removing from the pan and toss in powdered sugar.

Steps:

• Cream 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar and 1 tsp vanilla.
• Add egg, beat well.
• Sift flour and baking soda together and add alternately with buttermilk to egg mixture.
• Add nuts.
• Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 in a 9x13 pan.
• For the topping: Bring topping ingredients to a boil (1/4 cup butter, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/8 cup milk and 1/2 tsp vanilla). Boil 2 minutes. Add 1 cup powdered sugar and mix well.
• Spread on cooled bars.

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar.
• Add flour. Divide in 1/2.
• To the first half add nuts and coconut.
• Press into the bottom of a 9x13 pan; set aside.
• Combine egg, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, buttermilk, and vanilla.
• Spread over first layer.
• Bake in 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for 45 minutes.
• While still warm frost with thin icing.