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 holiday recipe is for homemade Kruschiki which is a polish fried dough that is covered in powdered sugar. Growing up we used to always go to the polish bakery to buy Kruschiki before heading to my grandparents house. I decided one year to try and make my own Kruschiki and now I cant eat the stuff in the stores….mine is THAT GOOD!!!
My favorite recipe and memory is Ebleskivers for breakfast on Christmas morning! They are labor intensive but oh-so-worth-it!
my favorite holiday recipe are my mom’s mango bars.
favorite holiday receipe is sugar cookies
After years of watching my mother fail at fudge making, I made it my mission to perfect it! I included the recipe I use. I believe the key to perfect, creamy fudge is the boiling time and constant stirring. From the moment I begin making my fudge, I never leave it’s side! I have recently decided to turn my love of all things sweet into a career and enrolled full time in college to get my culinary degree!
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving and keep blogging! I look forward to reading it everyday!
Ashley 🙂
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 small can (5 oz.) evaporated milk (about 2/3 cup)
1-1/2 pkg. (12 squares) Semi-Sweet Chocolate, chopped
1 jar (7 oz.) Marshmallow Creme
1 cup chopped Walnuts
1 tsp. vanilla
I will have to try that!
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Seriously..I am not lying…magic cookie bars are by far my favorite holiday treat!