Best Ever Chocolate Pudding Bars

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Title: Best Ever Chocolate Pudding Bars
Categories: Cookies, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

Crust ingredients:
1/2 c Unsalted butter
1/4 c White sugar
1 lg Egg yolk
1 ts Pure vanilla extract
1 c Cake flour
1/8 ts Salt
Filling ingredients:
1/2 c White sugar
1 tb Cornstarch
6 lg Egg yolks
1 ts Almond extract
1 c Whipping cream
6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
=miniature sized
1 c Chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 325. Spray an 8 x 8 inch square baking
pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, cream butter and
sugar. Add one egg yolk and vanilla and beat at medium
speed until light and fluffy. Add flour and salt and beat
at low speed just until combined. Pour dough into prepared
baking pan and chill.
When chilled, press into pan with floured fingers and
press dough to 1/4 inches thick on bottom and sides of pan.
Extend up 1 inch of pan and chill again. For filling, mix
together sugar and cornstarch in small mixing bowl. With
electric mixer on medium-high, beat 6 yolks until light and
fluffy. Add cornstarch-sugar mixture and mix on medium-high
until combined. Add vanilla, cream, chocolate and walnuts
and blend on low, scraping bowl, whenever necessary, until
combined. Pour filling into baking pan. Bake 1 hour until
filling is set and golden brown. Chill and cut into bars.
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