Magic Cookie Bars. Peanut butter flavored chips or white chocolate chips may be substituted for butterscotch flavored chips. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over melted margarine, chopped nuts over crumbs, then distribute chocolate chips over nuts. Even though the kids will adore these old-fashioned Magic Cookie Bars, we can't wait to curl up with a cup of coffee and enjoy one ourselves. Place crumbs in a medium bowl. You've seen these classic treats at bake sales, holiday parties and potlucks over the years.
But they tend to crumble when cut, thanks to a thin graham cracker crust.
And, topped with gobs of super-sweet shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk and semisweet chocolate, they have a cloying bite that may.
The original magic cookie bars don't have butterscotch or extras (hey, not that those don't make the bars better!) but I wanted to provide you guys with the basic, old a heck, classic magic cookie bar recipe that started it all!
You can cook Magic Cookie Bars using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Magic Cookie Bars
- Prepare of Crisco original no-stick cooking spray.
- It's 1 1/2 cups of graham cracker crumbs.
- You need 1/2 cup of butter, melted.
- It's 1 (14 oz) of can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk.
- Prepare 2 cups (12 oz) of pkg.) semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- It's 1 1/3 cups of flaked coconut.
- You need 1 cup of chopped nuts.
Press the crumb base into the bottom of the pan. Magic Cookie Bars with so Many Layers of Decadence! There's just so much decadence in this one simple dessert and people of all ages always love them. The Magic of Magic Cookie Bars.
Magic Cookie Bars instructions
- Heat over to 350 F. Coat 13X9-inch baking pan with no stick cooking spray. Or for perfectly cut cookie bars, line entire pan with foil, extending foil over edge of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick cooking spray..
- Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer evenly with chocolate chips, coconut, and nuts. Press down firmly with fork..
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned..
- Loosen from sides of pan while still warm; cool on wire rack. Cut into bars. If you used foil: after bars have baked and cooled, lift up with edge of foil to remove from pan. Cut into bars.
The true magic of these rich, sweet Magic Bars is how easy they are to make. There's no mixing, no creaming butter with sugar, no adding the eggs one at a time. Instead, Magic Bars are pretty much assembled from a pantry of stock ingredients, which are then sprinkled and layered one on top of the next. Magic cookie bars freeze beautifully when fully baked and can be eaten straight from the freezer for a chewier bar or thawed in the fridge for gift-giving. Cool the bars completely, and cut and wrap the bars individually in plastic wrap.