Recipe: Spice Bars

Ingredients

• 115g (1 stick) unsalted butter
• 200g dark brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 dollop (likely a teaspoon) of vanilla bean paste (or sub vanilla extract)
• large pinch of salt (1/4 tsp?)
• 125g (1 cups) all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp chai spice blend
• chopped candied ginger – until you get bored of chopping

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. line 8/8 baking tin with parchment paper (if you double the recipe, use 9×13)
3. brown the butter
4. mix in sugar and vanilla and let cool while you chop the ginger
5. mix flour, salt and chai spice blend together
6. toss chopped ginger chunks in the flour and leave there, to keep the chunks of ginger from sticking to each other and to help them better distribute in the bars
7. beat egg into wet ingredients, mix in dry, pour into prepared pan
8. Bake on 350 for ~30minutes (check at 25). Barsare ready when toothpic inserted in center comes out clean

NOTES:
I cut these in 1 x 2 inch rectangles to enjoy