COFFEE CREAM BARS...Perfect Accompaniment to a Cuppa

My Mum always made these growing up, particularly when we had visitors or going to functions which required us to 'take a plate'. These coffee cream bars go perfectly with a cup of tea or coffee and as most of the recipes Mum has passed down to me, they are really difficult to stop at one. If you don't fancy raisins or walnuts you can leave them out, or substitute the raisins for sultanas, but at least once you need to try it with both the raisins and walnuts as the combination of these with the bar itself does have to be tasted to believe how scrumptious these Coffee Cream Bars really are.

                                    
                                                              COFFEE CREAM BARS

125g Butter
1 cup Brown Sugar, firmly packed
1 Egg
3/4 cup Plain Flour
1 cup SR Flour
1/2 teasp. Cinnamon
Pinch Salt
1 Dessertspoon Coffee Powder
1/2 cup hot Water
1/2 cup chopped Raisins
1/4 cup Walnuts

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well.

2. Fold in sifted dry ingredients alternately with the coffee which has been 
    dissolved in the hot water. Stir in raisins and walnuts.

3. Spread over well greased 18 x 28cm tin (7"x11"). Bake in moderate oven
    20-25 minutes. Cool in tin. 

                                         

ICING:-

1 Cup Icing Sugar
1 teasp. Vanilla Essence
25g Butter
3 Dessertspoons hot Coffee (approximately)

1. Sift icing sugar, beat in softened butter, vanilla and sufficient hot coffee to
    make a thin icing. Spread over bars, when cool, cut into bars.