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These Salted Honey Walnut Bars are addicting cookie bars made of a shortbread base covered in chewy honey walnut filling. I like to top them with a drizzle of chocolate and a big pinch of sea salt!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you on board the salted honey train? Thinking about hopping off? In the dining car, reading a newspaper and looking dapper? Or are you in favor of salted honey but tired of tortured food metaphors? Whatever your position on the salted honey trend, I hope you’re open to one more variation on the theme. You won’t be sorry–it’s a good one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the ubiquitous Salty Honey Pie<\/a> from the Four and Twenty Blackbirds<\/em> cookbook that has been whirling around food blogs for the last year, I decided to tackle my own salted honey dessert. If you haven’t seen the pie, it’s basically a single-crust pie with a filling of pure honey custard, enlivened with a little (actually, a lot) of salt. I’ve seen a lot of delicious-looking versions, and while I admit I’m a little curious to try it out, I also think that a pure slice of honey on a plate sounds too intense for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead, I made these honey-packed bars, whose strong honey flavor is tempered by a buttery shortbread crust, a thick layer of savory walnuts, a generous drizzle of chocolate…and of course, those big flakes of crunchy salt on top! It’s the salted honey dessert of my dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regular readers will know that it takes a special recipe to get me really<\/em> excited about a non-chocolate dessert. Put me in front of a fudgy brownie (or a bowl of ganache<\/a>) and I squeal like a schoolgirl at a One Direction concert (sidenote: do the kids still like 1D? Please enlighten this wizened old woman). Offer me a blondie or a snickerdoodle, on the other hand, and I give a vaguely enthusiastic head nod like a schoolgirl at a Barry Manilow concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these bars…they had me headbanging (metaphorically) and moshing (still metaphorically) and eating them by the handful (sadly, that part is literal.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Something about the combination of the crispy, buttery crust, the crunchy walnuts, and the honey filling, with its luscious caramel texture, really got to me. The flavor and texture are both perfectly balanced, and although the ingredient list would have you believe that these are a painfully sweet bar, somehow the salt and the dark chocolate combine to make them not at all cloying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cut these into slender fingers, thinking that dainty rectangles would help with portion control. Wrong! Please come and remove the remainder of them from my house stat. One cannot (well, should not) live on Salted Honey Walnut Bars alone…although I’m certainly making a valiant effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think these would make a great edible gift, because they stay fresh for days and days<\/em>. The honey layer really helps keep them moist, so if you can swing some protective packaging, this would make a great care package for your favorite far-flung friend. Or eat them all yourself! I dig that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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