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.
7 layer, aka magic, bars 🙂
I love love Christmas too….. My mom & I start making our CHRISTMAS CANDY in october. First we make the centers for our cherry cordials ( they have to sit & get good & ready) before you dip them in chocolate. Then we make turtles, idle isles, toffee, caramels, pecan nut rolls, and lastly divinity……So you can see why I love christmas time & would love some Eagle brand milk!!
My favorite holiday memory was from my childhood. We went to see my Grandparents almost every year and there was a house out in the middle of no where that had a Santa in his sleigh on top of their house. We always drove by when it was pitch black, so you could never see the house, just the Santa and his sleigh. My Dad would always tell us that we needed to go to sleep or Santa would pass by Grandma’s house. We would always fall asleep as fast as we could. I loved seeing that Santa every year!
These look devine, on my must make list now. Every thanksgiving and Christmas I make a regional dish called stuffed mirliton, stuffed with shrimp and lump crabmeat. My granny used to make it and now I do, I only make it twice a year, on thanksgiving for my husbands family and on Christmas for mine. I guess having this for the holidays is also one on my favorite memories because my granny was the best little Cajun cook ever and unfortunately her recipes died with her.
my favortie holiday treats are linzer cookies.
Oh how fun! The recipe looks yummy and I sure could use that awesome pan! One of my favorite memories is baking and decorating homemade sugar cookies with my 5 children. Our three youngest are now pre and teen aged and we still carry on the tradition, then share with neighbors and friends at church. Looking very much forward to Thanksgiving though and it’s gonna be a BUSY week!
My favorite holiday recipe is a simple, lucious, pumpkin pie which always puts me in a good mood 🙂
I was born in germany, and I always loved opening gifts the night before on the 24th. Then I could sleep in the next day, I am sure my parents appreciated it too!
My daughters and I love to bake sugar cookies!
My Granny’s divinity is my favorite Christmas recipe! She didn’t have much money, but every year she would make all kinds of Christmas goodies and pass them out to friends & acquaintances.