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There are tons of methods you could use, but today I came up with two ways of combining Magic Cookie Bars (aka Seven Layer Bars) with brownies. First, the lazy version — brownies topped with a flat layer of graham crackers, condensed milk, chips and nuts. And second, the more time consuming brownie composed of [...]
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If you like Seven Layer Bars, Hello Dollies and Magic Cookie Bars but find them a little too sweet, here’s an alternative. Adapted from a recipe called Chocolate ‘N Oat Bars, this one is originally from Smucker’s, but with a few little changes. Because I had an open bag of butterscotch chips, I threw in [...]
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I’ve always been a little uptight about Seven Layer Bars, the cookies where you melt the butter directly in the pan, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over the butter, pour milk directly over the crumbs, etc. etc. I love the concept but always worry I’ll burn the butter (because one time I did) and that …
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The Cookie Swap! recipe, which is better than the typical Hello Dolly or Magic Cookie Bar thanks to the almonds, also includes copious amounts of coconut. Okay, maybe not “copious” but a lot – -a full 3 cups. It’s the top layer of coconut, which you press down into the chips before drizzling with condensed milk, that gives the bars and almost macaroon like top. Because I was abstemious with the coconut, my bars appear more like Magic Cookie bars with almonds. Either way, the recipe makes a great cookie.
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This recipe goes by many names – Seven Layer Bars, Magic Cookie Bars and Hello Dollies. You’ve got Seven Layer bars if you actually use all seven layers, which include butter, graham cracker crumbs, condensed milk, butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, coconut and nuts which you make by layering directly in the pan. If you …
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As promised, here’s the recipe from this morning. I’d intended to make regular Seven Layer Bars, but I felt kind of low in calcium so I replaced the usual graham crackers with Barnum’s animal crackers. Okay, so I’m still probably going to need Boniva in a few years, but the animal cracker crust was pretty [...]
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