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 got a recipe from a friend last year that will no doubt become our holiday tradition. Butter, sugar, chocolate and almonds. How simple is that?
My mom makes a cinnamon, chocolate, and pecan coffee cake every year for Christmas morning. It is my absolute favorite!!
I remember helping my mother make candies for Christmas – chocolate covered cherries, snickers bars, peanut butter cups, fudge and more. Now I do chocolate tasting parties for a living…coincidence? I think not.
Thanks to the Eagle brand and YOU for a sweet contest!
Woot!!! This is just fabulous!!!! Thanks to you and Eagle Brand – and I’m totally cheering that I’m not the only person eating this stuff with a spoon. I get it honest though. My mother’s snack when she would visit her Nanna on the farm was a can of Eagle Brand and a sleeve of saltine crackers for the week (her “special” treat from the local store) – LOL!
My favorite recipe would have to be the Baker’s One-Bowl Fudge, using none other than Eagle Brand – YUMMO – and super, super simple!
Hugs
Nette
My favorite baking secret? Brown Sugar in place of White! It adds so much chew to any recipe, and a depth of flavor that most people will notice without knowing just exactly what they are getting! It is soo simple!
I would love to win!
My favorite holiday dessert is anything chocolate! I am all about the desserts & love to bake!
My favorite part of the holidays are all the baked goodies…. especially cookies!!
One of my go-to holiday recipes is molasses cookies, but I always make way too many different things!
Christmas memories….so many so good!! One I think of was when the kids were school age we baked together. Magic bars of course, Fudge and peanut brittle too. The kids made press cookies for teachers gifts. They could chose the shapes and decorate them to suit their taste.
Later a Christmas when I baked with grown up grand daughters. We didnt have a candy themometer and I was able to teach them about hard boil and soft boil stages. Something they had never heard of. It was a very fun day! I cherish all of the memories of families, baking and of course eating it all.
My mom used to make big batches of sugar cookies and wed fill the table up with cookies. there were several bowls of different colored frosting, it was messy but so much fun. I now do this with my kids.