Frosted Triple Orange Squares Recipes

COCONUT ORANGE SQUARES

Steps:

• Crem butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg, orange rind and milk.
• Add coconut and dry ingredients.
• Mix only enough to blend.
• Place in 8" square pan lined with waxed paper (or use a nonstick pan). Bake in 350F oven about 25 minutes.
• Cut into squares.
• Can easily be doubled and baked in 13x9" pan.

BANANA ORANGE BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the bananas, sugar, oil and eggs until well blended. In a small bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and baking soda; gradually beat into banana mixture until blended., Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack. , For frosting, cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in orange juice and zest until smooth; spread evenly over cake.

FROSTED RAISIN SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease 13x9x2 inch baking pan.
• in a large bowl cream butter and sugars.
• stir in egg and vanilla.
• in medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• stir into creamed mixture.
• gradually add cereal and raisings. stirring until all pieces are evenly coated. spread evenly in bottom of pan.
• bake 15-20 min or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• cool.
• in a smalll bowl combine confectioners sugar and milk.
• drizzle over top.
• cut into squares.
• makes 48 squares.

DATES, FIGS AND ORANGE SQUARES

Steps:

• In a saucepan, mix water, dates, figs, sugar, lemon juice and orange juice. Let rest for 30 minutes then bring to boil. Reduce to medium heat and let simmer, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes or until mixture has thicken. Let cool.
• In a large bowl, mix oats, flour, brown sugar, orange peel and salt. Add butter and with a pastry knife or with 2 knives, work the mixture until you have rough crumbs. Press uniformly half of this mixture in a 8 inches square pan (with parchment paper). Spread the cold dates garnish on the oat mixture. Mix the remaining oat mixture with hazelnuts. Distribute this mixture on the date garnish and press slightly.
• Cook in a preheated oven of 350 F for about 45 minutes or until the top is lighly golden. Put the pan on a rack and let cool. Cut in squares. (You can prepare these squares in advance, let cool and cover with plastic wrap. They will be good up to 3 days in the fridge or up to 2 weeks in the freezer, wrapped with foil paper).

FROSTED ORANGE DATE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10x15 inch jellyroll pan.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, 1/2 cup butter, water and dates. Cook, stirring frequently until dates have softened and the mixture is well blended. Remove from heat. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the date mixture, then mix in the 1/4 cup orange juice, milk, eggs and 1 tablespoon orange zest. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. To make the frosting, combine the confectioners' sugar, 1/3 cup butter, cream cheese and orange zest. Beat until smooth. Gradually mix in the remaining orange juice a tablespoon at a time until the icing is spreadable. Spread over the bars when cool. Cut into squares.

FROSTED PINEAPPLE SQUARES

Steps:

• Mix 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch and salt in saucepan. Stir in egg yolk and pineapple chunks. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth, about minutes. Cool to lukewarm while preparing dough. Scald milk; add 1 teaspoon sugar; cool to lukewarm. Dissolve Fleischmann's Yeast in very warm water; add to milk mixture. Stir in beaten egg yolks. Measure flour into large bowl. Cut margarine into flour using pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in yeast and milk mixture; blend thoroughly. Dough will be soft and moist. Divide in half. Roll half out on floured board to fit bottom of jelly roll pan and overlap edges, about 16 x 10 inches. Spread with cooled pineapple filling. Roll remaining dough large enough to cover filling. Seal edges. Snip surface of dough with scissors to let steam escape. Cover; let rise in warm place, free from draft, until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour. Bake at 375ºF oven for 35-40 minutes. Frost with confectioners; sugar icing. Serve warm.