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Cookie Recipe of the Week:
Viennese Walnut Layer Bars

Image: Viennese Walnut Layer Bars from The Cookie Elf

Bar cookies can be crisp or chewy; filled or layered; smooth-surfaced or crumbly on top. Well-known types (like brownies, blondies, and lemon bars) have been supplemented in recent years with a profusion of new bar cookie recipes, like Viennese Walnut Layer Bars -- which combine the elegance of a pastry served at European tea time with the ease of making a bar cookie recipe. Walnuts, chocolate, and coffee give these bars their rich flavor.

Viennese Walnut Layer Bars
Prep time: 20-30 minutes
Bake time: 28-30 minutes
Makes about 54 bars, when cut in fingers ¾ inches by 1 ½ inches

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