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.
Favorite recipe is chewy ginger cookies! Ps that kit looks beyond awesome. As does your fudge 🙂
I love the smell of freshly baked pies!
My favorite holiday baking recipe is Russian Tea Cakes…or “Snowballs” as my husband calls them!
-Emily H.
I used to go to England every Christmas and my grandmother would make the most delicious desserts. Even though I was stuffed from dinner, I would always eat some of everything. My favorite memory [dessert] is probably her summer pudding. I could eat so much of that covered in heavy cream or eaten with ice cream. So good.
My favorite holiday (baking) memory was of making Thanksgiving rolls in all kinds of fun shapes, including teddy bears, braids, turkeys, etc. One year, we made salt clay turkeys, too, that I believe we painted and used as centerpieces. Our Thanksgivings were always fun because we hosted a lot of foreign students or otherwise far-from-family guests. Such memories!!
My favorite holiday recipe is mashed potatoes and gravy. Ya I know weird. LOL. I love a great fudge though too.
🙂
Cool giveaway,
Susie
Hey Susie! Just wanted to let you know you won the contest! I will be sending you an email to follow up!
I always loved decorating sugar cookies with my mom. As an adult living in another state, we still make time for an afternoon of Christmas cookie decorating.
Homemade caramels are my favorite, closely followed by good old fashioned sugar cookies! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
My favorite memory was having my first Christmas dinner on the night before Christmas and it snowed, in HOUSTON!
gotta make cornbread and milk for breakfast for my hunny for Thanksgiving! Call it a southern thing, but it just isn’t thanksgiving with it for him! 🙂