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 recipe is for Spritz cookies. We only make them at Christmas.
Oh this fudge looks so amazing! I love the incorporation of graham crackers and nuts for some crunch. And what great giveaway! One of my favorite holiday baking/cooking traditions is making homemade peanut brittle with my family. It can be messy and frustrating, but the process is all good fun!
My favorite holiday memory is baking with my grandmother.
Homemade banana pudding, from scratch. It’s the BEST!
My favorite Christmas treat is my mom’s chocolate chip cookies!
My favorite Christmas cookie is taking the little rolo and squishing it into a peanut butter cookie…yummy!!!
Thanksgiving is definitely my favorite holiday! Any excuse to eat your body weight in food is a good day
my “secret” is to always find someone else who is making the big meal & offer to make the side dishes so I don’t have all that stress, plus I get to experiment with different sides! we’re all winners that way!! 🙂
My favorite memory of the holiday’s and baking is when my Mom used to make her chocolates for Christmas. I used to sit at the counter in the kitchen and watch her melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler and then carefully pour it into the molds that lined her counter in front of me. As I got older I was allowed to help starting with putting the sticks in to the chocolate that was being made into choco-pops, then with the actual melting and pouring duties. My Mom stopped making her chocolates many years ago but I still hold those moments as my favorite holiday memory.
My favorite holiday treat recipe is my fudge. Good, milk chocolate fudge that I hand mix for 10 minutes to get that smooth taste.