Name: Tweed Squares
Yield: 9 servings
Cuisine: North American
Ingredients: ½ cup butter or margarine (125 ml); ⅔ cup white sugar (150 ml); 1 ⅓ cup flour (325 ml; 2 tsp baking powder (10 ml); ½ tsp salt (2 ml); 1 tsp vanilla (5 ml); ½ cup milk (125 ml); 2 squares semi-sweet chocolate, grated; 2 egg whites; 2 Tbsp white sugar, add to egg whites (30 ml); 1 ½ cup icing sugar; 2 egg yolks; ⅓ cup butter or margarine; 2 squares semi-sweet chocolate; 2 Tbsp butter or margarine (30 ml)

Yields

9 servings

Recipe Courtesy Natalie MacMaster

ingredients

Bottom Layer

cup butter or margarine (125 ml)

⅔

cup white sugar (150 ml)

1 ⅓

cup flour (325 ml

tsp baking powder (10 ml)

tsp salt (2 ml)

tsp vanilla (5 ml)

cup milk (125 ml)

squares semi-sweet chocolate, grated

egg whites

Tbsp white sugar, add to egg whites (30 ml)

Middle Layer

1 ½

cup icing sugar

egg yolks

⅓

cup butter or margarine

Top Layer

squares semi-sweet chocolate

Tbsp butter or margarine (30 ml)

Ingredient Substitution Guide

directions

Step 1

Cream the butter and 2/3 cup sugar. Stir in vanilla.

Step 2

Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.

Step 3

Beat egg whites with 2 tbsp. sugar until stiff.

Step 4

Fold in grated chocolate and stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into greased 9 x 9-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 25 minutes. Cool.

Step 5

Combine icing sugar, egg yolks and butter until smooth. Spread over bottom layer.

Step 6

Melt chocolate and butter. Mix well. Spread over middle layer. Refrigerate. When top layer is set. Cut and serve.

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