Cocoanuts Bars

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups (honey or cinnamon*) graham cracker crumbs (about 8 graham crackers' worth)
1/2 loving cup butter
1 loving cup semi or bittersweet chocolate chips
1/2 loving cup butterscotch chips
1/2 loving cup peanut butter chips
1 loving cup unsweetened flaked coconut
1/2 loving cup dear roasted peanuts
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 as well as stir inwards graham cracker crumbs until thoroughly combined. Press, using the dorsum of a spoon or the bottom of a standard loving cup into the bottom of the buttered pan taking tending to accomplish all corners.

Evenly sprinkle the chocolate chips, as well as hence the butterscotch chips, peanut butter chips, coconut, as well as peanut over the graham cracker layer. Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top, as well as spread alongside the dorsum of a spoon or spatula until the mixture is evenly coated.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until edges are golden chocolate-brown as well as the bars expect "set".

Allow to cool on a wire rack completely earlier slicing. This seems to accept forever only resist the urge to cutting them when they are fifty-fifty remotely yet warm. You 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 upwardly to half dozen months if desired.

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My thoughts:

Bars similar these receive got a lot of dissimilar names. 7-Layer Bars (for those, the butter is ordinarily melted inwards the baking pan piece preheating as well as and hence sprinkled alongside the graham cracker crumbs to shape the showtime as well as 2nd layers), Magic Bars (I approximate because it is a bunch of layered materials that "magically" makes a bar cookie?) as well as oddly, Hello Dolly Bars later on the Broadway play. I also heard "dream bars" from a reader commenting on my Instagram flush when I was making them, upon googling they expect similar mayhap a precursor to the 7-layer bar because they require yous to genuinely build a shortbread cookie vs. using graham crackers which also sounds genuinely good. The recipes are all pretty similar although tin vary inwards what form of chips to purpose as well as when to seat inwards the sweetened condensed milk. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of recipes telephone band for it on the graham cracker layer as well as hence everything else is plopped on overstep only I opted to seat it on final alongside the promise it would assist the kokosnoot chocolate-brown piece yet asset everything together as well as "protecting" the chips from at i time heat.

I did non grow upwardly eating these, I intend they are much to a greater extent than of a midwest thing, the parties I went to all had black bottoms, drop cookies as well as brownies (and birthday cake if applicable) non bar cookies only I've read well-nigh them hence many times I felt similar I've had them. I tin run across why they are popular, they are real uncomplicated as well as tin endure made alongside ingredients that most people in all likelihood receive got on manus or at the real to the lowest degree selection upwardly easily at whatsoever store. They would endure hence quick to build for a final infinitesimal occasion or weeknight treat.

I took my inspiration from the classic dorsum of the tin recipe only genuinely made it my own--a fleck to a greater extent than graham cracker crumbs hence the pan is easier to coat, a mix of butterscotch as well as peanut butter chips, using bittersweet chocolate chips instead of milk, dear roasted peanuts instead of walnuts as well as I intend the most genius switch up: using unsweetened shredded kokosnoot instead of sweetened flaked coconut. The bars are hence sugariness thank yous to all the chips as well as the sweetened condensed milk, the kokosnoot genuinely doesn't involve to endure sweetened too! I'm happy also that unsweetened coconut is hence much easier to uncovering at nowadays (Harris Teater genuinely had a shop build version!), I recollect dorsum when I started I had to rails it downward at wellness nutrient stores as well as South Asian groceries. Coconut is naturally sugariness as well as a lot of recipes that telephone band for sweetened are hence sugariness already, they don't genuinely involve extra sugar.

The number is a bar that is a enterprise nod to the classic only that is much to a greater extent than appealing to a to a greater extent than "adult" tastes than the super sugariness ooey-gooey original. Personally, I prefer desserts that aren't described equally "tooth-achingly sweet"; a descriptor I saw to a greater extent than than i time inwards conjunction to the master copy bars only to each at that spot own! It mightiness endure fun to accept a batch of these as well as a batch of the originals to a political party as well as exercise a sense of savour test. These are yet sugariness of course of didactics only alongside a deeper, darker flavour than the usual.