Nanaimo bar

Should your great aunt who invented the original Nanaimo bar be honoured?

Nanaimo bars can also be found in Australian coffee shops in large cities.

I would think Nanaimo Bars are a good choice to be called a Canadian food.

On their way out, nibbling on a Nanaimo bar, they spotted the prairie oyster man again.

In fact, everyone just milled around, murmuring innocuously and nibbling Nanaimo bars.

A dessert buffet will feature Nanaimo bars and the work of two Toronto chocolatiers.

On my scrawled list on my desk is a note to type up a recipe for Nanaimo bars.

A friend notes that in the western part of the country, a Nanaimo bar is sometimes called a "New York Slice."

One famous Canadian dish that originated in the Pacific Northwest is the Nanaimo bar.

A well-known baked treat across Canada, a Nanaimo bar is usually a baked square of biscuit with a sweet cream filling and chocolate on top.

Deep fried Nanaimo bars wrapped in Canadian bacon and crammed between two fried Moose fillets?

An episode from the first season of MasterChef Canada featured an elimination challenge where competitors made desserts inspired by Nanaimo bars.

The earliest confirmed printed copy of the recipe using the name "Nanaimo Bars" appears in the Edith Adams' prize cookbook (14th edition) from 1953.

The Nanaimo bar, which is a no-bake cookie bar with custard filling, is a Canadian dessert named after Nanaimo.

If the Bruins clinch the Stanley Cup, one lucky charity will win a shipment of British Columbia smoked salmon and famous Canadian confection Nanaimo bars.

Nanaimo bars are also sold in Vientiane, Laos, at some small coffee shops along the Mekong River as well as at The Hammer restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan.

Imagine my surprise when I had the opportunity to stay at that hotel, in early December, and finding another plate of Nanaimo bars - this time with a beautiful green butter icing filling, sitting beside the phone.

Flapjacks covered in maple syrup, Smoked salmon, Nanaimo Bars, BEER, canadian bacon on pretty much anything is Canadian and who can forget POUTINE!

The designation "Nanaimo bar" is Canadian; Nanaimo Bar appears in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary but not in other language or dialect versions.

However, following research into the origins of Nanaimo bars, Lenore Newman writes that the same recipe was published in the Vancouver Sun earlier that same year under the name "London Fog Bar".

Nanaimo bar A confection, named for the town of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, that resembles a brownie but is topped with a layer of white butter cream icing and another of solid chocolate.

In 1985, Mayor Graeme Roberts initiated a contest to find the ultimate Nanaimo bar recipe, and the recipe submitted by Joyce Hardcastle, a resident of Nanaimo, was unanimously selected by a panel of judges.

I met Buzz and Louise McComb at the dock in Emo - we loaded Loon and all my gear and here I am, well-fed with blueberry pie and Nanaimo bars and cookies ready for the next leg of the journey!

• Nanaimo Bars Regional Cooking and Recipes - British Columbia (B.C.) From an elegant tea in Victoria to an outdoor salmon barbecue in Nanaimo, the food of British Columbia is as original and varied as the province itself.