Magic Bar Fudge is two classic desserts in one place! Creamy chocolate fudge, with butterscotch chips, and toasted coconut will be a sure favorite!
Wanted to pop in over the weekend and share a little something with you.
I know you are all scrambling to get your houses, menus and turkeys ready for Thanksgiving…but let’s just take a pause, just for a minute, to anticipate the upcoming Christmas season…
I know, I know, one holiday at a time…but I can’t help it! I’m not a Thanksgiving girl. You would think I would be, I mean it’s a holiday completely geared towards stuffing your face, putting on happy pants and then napping. I mean, that’s basically my dream world. But for some reason, it’s just not my favorite. I look at it like this: pie…no thanks, turkey…meh, stuffing…well, alright stuffing I could make a meal out of…but overall, not my thang. Maybe if I could convince my husband that there needs to be presents on Thanksgiving I could learn to love it. Presents make everything better. Fact.
So while you all are thinking pumpkin pie and gravy, I am all about the Christmas cookie…I start planning my holiday baking pretty much in January. I bookmark, I pin, I gather scrap recipes in a folder. Yep, it’s all about the Christmas cookie.
With that said, you want to take a gander at what I came up with?
It’s Magic Bar Fudge.
Here’s what I did:
I coarsely chopped up some graham crackers.
I toasted some coconut over low heat until it got to be this pretty golden color…
I chopped up some walnuts…
Then I mixed some chocolate and butterscotch chips, a pinch of salt in a medium saucepan…
and poured a can of sweetened condensed milk in and melted it all together.
When the chocolate mixture melted, I folded in the graham crackers and nuts and spread into my foil-lined pan.
I sprinkled my toasted coconut on top and let it chill in the fridge.
Now you should really let it set up in the fridge for a good 2 hours, but I may or may not have sampled it before then…SO, if you aren’t above eating melty fudge with a spoon over the pan, now would be the time.
Magic Bar Fudge
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 25 pieces 1x
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 (14 ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped graham crackers
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup toasted coconut
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Line 9×9 pan with foil. Set aside.
- In a medium skillet, place your coconut over medium-low heat until it’s a light golden color. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In a medium saucepan add both kinds of chips, salt, vanilla and sweetened condensed milk. Melt together on low heat until smooth. Remove immediately from heat and fold in nuts and graham crackers.
- Spread in prepared pan and sprinkle toasted coconut on top, gently pressing into chocolate.
- Place in refrigerator to chill and set.
- Cut into squares.
My favorite holiday treat is peppermint brownies! I have spent a lot of time perfecting this recipe and they are amazing!
Would love to win!
My favorite Christmas food is homemade rolls, and chocolate mousse.
My mom was never much of a baker, but every Christmas she would make cookies with us kids! Sugar cookies w/frosting and all kinds of sprinkles. Good times. 🙂
My favorite would be my grandpa’s fudge. Fantastic, melt-in-your-mouth stuff. Yum.
My mom always made fudge but my favorite was a cookie bar she’d make every year called Jan Hagels. She would have to hide them from my sisters and I. That was a long time ago and to this day I cannot make them taste as good as she did.
I look forward to my mom’s cheesy potatoes every Xmas.
My favorite baking secret…patience …you can’t rush the eggs or butter when making cookies or cakes, letting them both come to room temperature makes a world of difference and cutting corners, aka, microwaving the butter just isn’t the same thing as letting it sit out in the pantry over night.
My favorite holiday recipe is my Grandma’s monster cookies! mmmmm! Thanks for hosting this giveaway 🙂
That fudge looks divine! Do the graham crackers stay crunchy? Or do they get soft?
My favorite is Molasses Cookies. I like the softer texture to the Gingerbread. I Cut them out and let my kid decorate them.
I am a traditions girls so I have lots of memories of my kiddos on Christmas. They love to bkae Santa his cookies so usually the 23rd my kiddos and several of their friends belly up to the bar and make some dough, roll, stamp, cut, frost, decorate cookies, counters, floors, themselves. Priceless memories for all! 🙂