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 was my moms Japanese Fruit Cake
when my children were young I would get all 6 in there to participate in holiday baking so very fun
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Awesome fudge! I always make some sort of kiss cookie and sugar cookies with icing. I wasn’t going to make those this year and got a stern YES YOU ARE from my kid. 🙂
My favorite holiday recipe is Coconut Bonbons. I think some people may call them Martha Washington Balls. My grandmother makes them every year and it wouldn’t be Christmas without them. Soooooo yummy!
My favorite holiday recipe is my grandmothers chocolate pie. She passed away in January 2006 and now I make the pies for my family like she taught me. Baking with her was always the highlight of the holidays.
I have fond memories of making snickerdoodles and russian tea cakes with my mom at the holidays, she’d always let me roll the dough balls in the cinnamon/sugar or powdered sugar – those are still my favorites to make to this day. But now I’ve also expanded to include my husband’s long family recipe of homemade peanut brittle – it’s by far and away the best peanut brittle I’ve ever eaten in my life!
these look amazing, Shelley!
I make Magic Bars too and keep a STASH of Sweetened condensed milk on hand b/c I am always using it in some kind of dessert. Great giveaway!
favorite holiday recipe = really anything that’s homemade and made with love…you can taste that in the goodies 🙂
My favorite memory is definitely all the family getting together. The parents sitting at 2 tables and all the cousins sitting at 1 table. Just sitting and eating and having a good time being around family.
My favorite holiday recipe is Jewish Sourcream Coffee Cake…..I found the recipe in one of those little booklets they sell at the grocery check out when I was a teen and have been making it every year.
Your fudge looks amazing!
My favorite recipe is cranberry trifle.