Chew Bread

Bland and tasteless. Not very good. Regular blondies are much, much better.

Made these tonight, taste fantastic but they came out more like a cookie than bread or brownie… any suggestions??

I made it and it is easy and so delicious, not too sweet. I made it with the ingredients and methods in the Times recipe. I think I'll eat one now.

I’m not a baker, because I don’t do exact measurements or even exact ingredients. Still, this recipe turned out great! Fluffy texture just out of the oven, hardening a bit (enough to cut cleanly) after 5-10 minutes. Here are the substitutions I made: used a 9"x9" pan (what I had), used unsifted fine rice flour (because gluten free), used raw sugar (what I had), and used Torani caramel sauce from the coffee-flavorings area of my grocery store. Very tasty, easy, fast.

Great recipe and so exciting to learn about a new food. After oiling the pan, I added a parchment sling. I added 1 tsp vanilla, and blanched the pecans because nuts can irritate my mouth. The batter is stiff like cookie dough and needs to be pressed into the pan. The end result has a chewy texture like brownies and tastes like pralines but not as sweet.

Made as written, 15 min cooking time is correct. Oil is for the pan. Adding butter as someone suggested in the comments would dramatically change the texture (and the meaning, keep in mind this was a treat with limited ingredients.) They are good, not too sweet. I may dust with a bit of powdered sugar after they cool.

I just made this chew bread recipe tonight as written. Perfect even though it was difficult to spread before baking. It came out really nice. Cooled it for 5 min and cut into bars. It’s not sweet but there’s a wholesomeness to it. Would be great with a little caramel drizzle and some whip if you’d want it as a proper sweet after dinner. Nice to take for a picnic or hike as a treat.

How about melting the sugar in two sticks of melted butter? Then mixing in the eggs after the butter/sugar mixture cools?

As other said, not enough liquid. The accompanying article mentions butter, so I assume that a stick of butter is left out of the ingredients. As written, yuck!

I followed the directions carefully, but I could not cut the Chew Bread into squares as the recipe was still gooey. I thought allowing it to set out for awhile might help, but it did not do much, if anything. My kids and their cousin ate it right out of the pan with spoons while watching a movie. It is too sweet for me, but I have already had a request for more of it from the kids.

My family baked a similar bar cookie that we called ‘Chews’ or ‘Chinese Chews’. The ingredients included brown sugar, butter, eggs, slivered almonds and shredded coconut. The recipe is called Toffee Nut Bars in a 1950’s version of the Betty Crocker cookbook. I still bake them and they are delicious.

So yummy!!! I made this right away and it made my day.