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 my late grandmother’s candy cane cookies!
I love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and pecan pie 🙂
My favorite is Bourbon-Glazed Sweet Potatoes.
My favorite memory is helping my mother bake all of her holiday candies to give away to family and friends. It was often my job to run to the neighbor’s house with a beautifully wrapped basket full of goodies and it’s something that I carry on today.
my favorite holiday recipe is Seafood Casserole, filled with crab, shrimp, tuna, and rice. I make it for our Christmas Eve open house every year.
My favorite holiday baking memory is frosting Christmas sugar cookies with my mom. She would make tons of different colors and I could be as creative as I wanted. It was always so fun.
My favorite memory is the family all being together.
The parents sitting at the fancy grown-up tables and all the cousins sitting at 1 table. Just sitting and eating and enjoying good family time.
My favorite thing has to be roasted sweet potatoes with broiled marshmallows. Yup, it’s my favorite thing on the holiday table. However, trying to narrow down my favorite holiday sweet? Impossible!
My favorite holiday recipe is Italian Pizzelles .
My favorite holiday memory is trimming our family Christmas tree each year. My dad would turn on the best Christmas music while my mom baked ginger cookies in the kitchen. The smell filled our house with the most delicious aroma and my mouth would start to water. After my dad unwrapped and hung the lights on the tree with a surgeon’s precision, we would all start decorating. Our house was filled with music and laughter as we ate cookies and decorate our tree together.
Today, I am blessed to still have my parents with me. Now, every Christmas, my two boys, myself and my parents all decorate our tree and my mom still makes her special ginger cookies. My boys tell me it’s their favorite thing to do during the holidays.