Simple 6 Layer Magic Bar Recipe

I am always looking for delicious and simple desserts to make for guests or take to a potluck.  It gets bonus points around here if it’s chocolate and you can eat it without any utensils.  My mom used to make these delicious, layered bars as a kid.  They may originate in the midwest potluck circuit.  She called them “hello dolly” bars but they are also called 7 layer bars or magic bars.

I am going to share my mom’s recipe with you today, the one I still use.  It’s so easy and simple, I am making these for the 4th of July at the lake!  I am not sure what the 7th layer would include, my recipe is just 6 ingredients.  This is a perfect recipe for a little chef to help you with!

Simple 6 Layer Magic Bars Recipe

 

Ingredients

1 stick of butter (melted)

1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

1 package sweetened coconut flakes (7 oz)

1 package butterscotch chips (11 oz)

1 package semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (2/3 box)

 

Directions

Start by preheating oven to 350 degrees.  Then, grease a 9×13 pan and melt the stick of butter in the microwave.  Measure out 1 1/4 cup graham crackers and mix the butter with the crumbs.  Firmly pat the crumb mixture into the pan to create a crust.

 

It’s time to layer the other ingredients on top of the crust. First, layer on the sweetened coconut flakes and then the mixture of semi-sweet chocolate chips and butterscotch chips.  Finally, evenly pour the sweetened condensed milk over the entire bar pan.

 

 

Once, you have finished layering on all the ingredients place the pan in a 350-degree oven uncovered for 30 minutes.  The top should be slightly browned.  Let cool before eating, then cut up and serve as a bar-style dessert at your next gathering.  These simple 6 ingredient magic bars are so good and deliciously rich, you will know why they are magic!

 

 

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Do you have a favorite bar-type dessert that you love to serve?  Bar-type desserts are a great alternative to cookie and actually, take less time and often are simpler which makes them winners in my book!  What are you baking these days?

Here are a few of my other favorite simple dessert recipes –

Simple Strawberry Shortcake

Simple Rhubarb Pecan Crisp

Simple Ice Cream Pie

Simple Oreo Pie

 

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Until next time keep on keeping on with a simple purposeful life!

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