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 best baking secret is parchment paper. No sticking and super easy clean up!
My favorite holiday dish is Broccoli Rice Casserole. Yum!
My favorite holiday memory is with my mom, aunt and grandma! After everything was cleaned up from Thanksgiving dinner instead of taking a nap we made of Christmas candies. Cream candies, homemade Mounds bars, Caramels and hard rock candies! Since we live in MI usually we have snow by Thanksgiving and everything can be safely stored outdoors until Christmas =D
My favorite memory is making gingerbread cookies with my family. As long as I can remember it has been a tradition with special cookie cutters my mother had. I managed to get a set of the same cookie cutters when I got married in 1980, so the tradition continued with my kids. Last year I decided that my cookie cutters have deteroiated, so I bought new ones. I never heard the end of it …. the cookies weren’t the same because the shapes were wrong. I searched for the original cookie cutters – and found them on Ebay. I bought a gently used set for me and one for each of my kids. That is what my grown kids will find under the tree this year ….. I can’t wait!!
My favorite christmas cookie recipe is my grandmother’s gingersnaps. I make @ 15 dozen each year.
we used to make these all the time growing up, but i never actually saw them with graham crackers! sounds delicious 🙂
My grandmother made everything from fudge to fruit cake to her wonderful oatmeal cookies the size of your hand. I love those memories of her and I baking. She made everything from scratch. I loved her divinity, but have never made it.
I think of her especially at Thanksgiving because she died three days before the holiday. I remember how hard it was to cook all of the food she had bought. My mother, sister and I all lived with her. That was over forty years ago and I still miss her. Making her dressing is how I honor her.
My favorite thing to do growing up was making spritz cookies with my Great Grandmas cookie press. I just bought one again and I can’t wait to relive this tradition as an adult and remember what a wonderful person my Grandma Stella was.
I always look forward to spending time with my family and our tradition of watching holiday movies together and having snack foods to nosh on. We also drive around on Christmas eve and look at all the decorated houses and lights which is probably our favorite thing of all.
My favorite Holiday memory was the first Christmas at my parent’s new house. Everyone was there including my grandfather who never got around to holiday gatherings. I took photos of everyone outside in front of the beautifully decorated house. It was the best Christmas just having everyone together. Sometimes it is the simple moments in life you cherish the most.