Speculoos Butterscotch 7-Layer Bars

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups speculoos cookie crumbs*
1/2 loving cup butter
10 oz semi or bittersweet chocolate chips
1 loving cup butterscotch chips
1 loving cup unsweetened finely flaked coconut
1/2 loving cup unopen to chopped toasted pecans
1 (14 oz) tin sweetened condensed milk


Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9x13 inch baking pan. Set aside.

Melt butter inwards a small-scale pan. Remove from estrus together with stir inwards cookie crumbs until thoroughly combined. Press, using the dorsum of a spoon or the bottom of a mensuration loving cup into the bottom of the buttered pan taking tending to make all corners.

Evenly sprinkle the chocolate chips, together with thus the butterscotch chips,  coconut, together with peanut over the cookie layer. Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top, together with spread amongst the dorsum of a spoon or spatula until the mixture is evenly coated.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until edges are golden brown.

Allow to cool on a wire rack completely earlier slicing. TYou tin refrigerate them earlier slicing if yous are a build clean lines fanatic. Store inwards the fridge or on a cool counter inwards an air-tight container. Freeze leftovers upwards to vi months if desired.



*You tin every bit good use pre-packaged cookies. Lotus build speculoos (Biscoff cookies inwards the US) are readily available. You'll quest 1 8.8 oz container (minus a cookie or 2 for snacking together with character command purposes) to build 1 3/4 cups crumbs.

My thoughts:

Every twelvemonth my married adult man together with I create a themed NYE motion-picture demonstrate marathon amongst paired nutrient together with games. For a long time, nosotros did decades together with thus switched to other themes when nosotros ran out of them. We've done everything from Hawaii to Westerns to Trains. This twelvemonth nosotros did movies amongst numbers inwards the title, played games involving numbers similar Dos together with this classic edition Yahtzee and made nutrient amongst numbers inwards the name. 

I made a version of 7-layer bars over the summertime I called cocoanuts bars  that nosotros actually enjoyed thus it was obvious I needed to build a novel version for New Year's Eve!  I had used speculoos inwards another recipe thus I had them on paw together with used that every bit a base of operations to live on out off. I idea the warm flavors of butterscotch together with pecans would twain nicely amongst the spice cookie. It actually did! These cookie bars were definitely sugariness simply had a cozy, warm feeling to them.

Once again, I used unsweetened kokosnoot because the other ingredients are thus real sweet. I found it inwards the "natural" nutrient aisle if yous bring problem locating it, non the baking aisle. It is pretty fine together with the number is that the bars bring a definite to a greater extent than candy bar experience vs the slightly cookie-macaroon of to a greater extent than coarsely grated coconut. I liked it a lot simply at that topographic point is a tiny texture difference. You tin work unsweetened flaked kokosnoot for a to a greater extent than traditional 7-Layer/Dolly Bar texture.