Mud Hens

With I saw the name Mud Hens, I had to check out what it was on Confabulation in the Kitchen website.  Great start, it was a dessert and the recipe appeared to be nice and simple! However in my haste, I started mixing ingredients I should not have, but the end result was still delicious! It is a bit on the sweet side, so you cannot really eat too much at once....at least I can't anymore. It also freezes really well. Just take it out of the freezer and warm it up in the microwave, and it is still fantastic!

Mud Hens
Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350F.
2) Sift dry ingredients.
3) Beat together 1 whole egg plus the yolk of the other. (Save your egg white! You'll use it later.)
4) Cream butter and sugar together, add egg mixture. Blend in sifted dry ingredients and vanilla.
5) Spread the thick mixture about 1/3 in. thick in greased shallow baking pan such as a jelly roll pan.
6) Mix unbeaten egg white with brown sugar and nuts and spread as evenly as possible over the mixture.
7) Bake in 350F oven about 20 minutes or until done. Cut into squares while still warm.