Do you have a go-to recipe? A recipe that you love, that's easy to whip up and keep the ingredients on hand? Something that you can run to the cupboard for when someone comes over unexpectedly, or maybe you have a craving or you need to take a treat to that party?
Magic Cookie Bars: our family's go-to recipe. My mom would make these on Sunday nights after church. We'd all be roaming the kitchen, opening the fridge multiple times and staring blankly at the contents. Then mom would mention these bars and we'd all perk up and go sit at the island until they came out of the oven.
I think a similar recipe, with added butterscotch and white chocolate chips, is known as "Seven Layer Bars." However, in my family we call these magic cookie bars, probably because they magically disappear as soon as they are made!
Magic Cookie Bars
Makes 9 x 13 pan
Total Time: 40 minutes plus 1 hour cooling time
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (1 package of grahams)
1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups sweetened coconut
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)
Place stick of butter in a 9 x 13 pan and place pan in the oven while it preheats.
By the time your oven is preheated, the butter should be melted!
Crush the graham crackers into fine crumbs. I like to do this by placing the grahams in a baggie and crushing them with a rolling pin, but you could also use a blender.
When butter is melted, add graham cracker crumbs to the pan, stir together and then press into an even layer with a spatula.
Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top of the graham cracker crumbs.
Top with coconut and sprinkle with chocolate chips and nuts (if you'd like).
I usually opt out of the nuts.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes until lightly browned.
Cool thoroughly before cutting into squares (if you can wait!)
Store covered at room temperature.
Recipe from "Hey Mom, What's for Dinner?" cookbook
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