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.
I can’t wait to try out this recipe. I would also love to win the Eagle Brand gift basket.
I LOVE Christmas. One of my favorite holiday memories is the one year when our friend who dresses as Santa every year, came to our door to wish our children Merry Christmas and bring a small gift. After he left (in a car), my oldest daughter, who was 11 at the time, finally figured out that Santa was really mom and dad. Our middle daughter who was 9 did all she could to hold back her giggles, while our older daughter went through the list, “So you are the Easter Bunny?…Tooth Fairy…?” I loved her sweet innocence.
My memories of cookies that my mom made are my favorites. Decorated cut out cookies, almond roca bars are two of my favorites.
thanks, kathy
My favorite Holiday recipe/memory is when my Grandparents came to visit us from the country and would bring a whole roaster full of holiday cookies. I plan to recreate this memory this year and use one of the recipes, frosted soft molasses cutouts for the cookie exchange with my sisters.
Oh, I love them Magic Bars and then there’s another favorite…cheesecake of any kind and then comes my Million Dollar Fudge which takes 3 different kinds of chocolate and makes 7 lbs worth. Yum, yum.
Thank U 4 this opportunity. I do use alot of Eagle Brand milk. Cheap is good; Free is better.
ColleenB.
Oh my mama’s Orange Balls….so yummy…I pine for this all year, but I only make them at Christmas, to keep things special!
my favorite holiday recipe would be my apple pie!
My secret is to start planning early like September or October. You can mix dough and safely freeze it for two or three months. Then I bake and have friends over. It’s a lot of fun!
My baking secret is when making sugar cookies use half powdered sugar and half flour for rolling out the dough.
Special memories involve visiting Great Aunt Mary and enjoying her apple cake with rum sauce. yummy.