ELECTRIC KITCHEN

HECO Coffee and chocolate combine in these cookie bars.

4-H clubbers offer recipes

"The Electric Kitchen" airing in the second half of July -- "Young Cooks" -- features 4-H Club members.

"Electric Kitchen" airs at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Monday, 5 p.m. Tuesday and 6 p.m. Thursday on Oceanic Cable Channel 16. It also airs on Maui at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Calabash Channel 44 (52 in Lahaina) and on the Big Island at 5 p.m. Monday and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on Na Leo o Hawaii Channel 55 in Hilo and Kona.

This recipe is from Amy Ogawa of Kuuipo's 4-H Club. All the recipes from the show, as well as an archive of recipes dating to 1995, are available at the Hawaiian Electric Co. Web site, www.heco.com.

Kona Coffee Bars

2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 eggs
1-1/2 tablespoons instant Kona coffee
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces
3/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease an 8-inch-square baking pan.

Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, instant coffee and vanilla; mix well. Sift flour and baking soda; mix into butter mixture. Stir in chocolate and pecans. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes. Cool and cut into bars. Makes 16 bars.

Nutritional information unavailable.

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