1/2 cup margarine (room temp.)
1/4 cup sugar
1-1/3 cup sifted flour
1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 t lemon juice
1 t vanilla extract
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup flaked coconut
powdered sugar
Mix margarine, sugar, and 1 cup flour until crumbly. Press into greased 9" square pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Sift remaining 1/3 cup flour with the baking powder and salt. Gradually beat sugar into eggs. Add flour mixture, mix well. Add lemon and vanilla, nuts, coconut, and prunes. Spread over baked base. Bake at 350 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. Cut into bars and roll in powdered sugar. Makes 2 dozen.
My first reaction when I saw this one was why???? You're going to make cookies. Why make prune nut bars? I can only reason that prunes were a lot more popular then than they are today. They don't even call them prunes anymore, only dried plums. Well, these are all right, not as bad as I thought it would be. I'm not going to make these again just because it makes everybody a little squeamish when I say what kind they are, and frankly there's just better cookies in this world to make.
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