Betty'S Holiday Mint Bars

• Cake
• 1 cup butter
• 2 sqrs unsweetened chocolate
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 tsps peppermint
• 2 cups chopped walnuts
• Frosting
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 2 - 4 Tbs milk or cream
• few grains of salt
• 1 tsp peppermint
• Glaze
• 2 sqrs unsweetened chocolate
• 2 tsps butter

1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Butter a 9x13 glass pan.
2. Melt chocolate and butter together and cool. Beat eggs and sugar until frothy. Add chocolate mixture then blend in flour. Mix in peppermint and nuts. Spread in buttered pan and bake for 30 - 35 minutes. Cool.
3. Frosting
4. Cream butter & half the sugar then add peppermint and beat until smooth. Add the rest of the sugar and beat well. Spread over cooled cake and let set.
5. Glaze
6. Melt chocolate and butter together. Cool slightly. Pour glaze over frosting and cover completely by angling cake back and forth. Refrigerate until glaze is firm. Cut into squares and put in freezer because they are soooo good frozen :)

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/bettys-holiday-mint-bars-50166349 (may not work)