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.
Learning to make Christmas cookies from my grandma is my best memory. This is our second Christmas without her, but her recipes make it feel like she is still there.
My favorite part of the holidays are having an excuse to eat a ton of dessets. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but we have friends that always make these peanut butter balls-things dipped in chocolate with, maybe, rice krispies in them. She won’t share the recipe, but I would give my right arm for it (except that I would make them all the time and be the size of a dump truck)!
I love to bake goodies for my family members. Buckeyes, Coconut Dreams, Sugar Cookies, Pumpkin Bread, Caramel Corn, Chocolate Mice, plus some other ones… 🙂
My favorite holiday recipe is pumpkin pie!
I loved going to my Grandma’s house and getting to eat off of the huge platter of homemade Christmas cookies! Plus, we got a platter to take home with us!
My favorite holiday (Thanksgiving) food/recipe is my grandma’s mashed sweet potatoes! I’m going to my boyfriend’s family for this year and I’m seriously going to miss those potatoes!
My favorite holiday recipe is Ham Delights. I have to search far and wide for Pepperidge Farm dinner rolls. I have to make a separate pan for each family member or they will fight over who has the most. I would love to win the sweet treats.
Baking Christmas cookies with my Mom 🙂
My favorite holiday recipe is my mom’s cornbread dressing. Thanks for the giveaway!
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My favorite holiday memory continues every year – my mother and sister’s homemade holiday cookies. Visions of snowballs, candycanes, gingerbread boys and girls, toffee bars and jam thumbprints are dancing in my head. I love the many varieties and can’t get enough!