Magic Cookie Bars

After making the Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars for Superman to take to work Friday, the family had no dessert of our own for Thursday night, so what was a mother to do? Make dessert, of course! I decided to put together some Magic Cookie Bars and maintain my popularity in the polls. Magic Cookie Bars is one of those recipes that everyone seems to have in their recipe file and no one knows where it came from. I do know the recipe is on the can of Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, so maybe that is where my mom got it all those years ago. Wherever it came from, it is definitely a family favorite in the Nagle5 household.

Magic Cookie Bars

1/2 cup of butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups of graham cracker crumbs (I used the food processor to grind my graham crackers)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chocolate chips (I used 1/2 cup chocolate and 1/2 cup butterscotch this time)
3 1/2 ounces sweetened flake coconut (I use about 2 cups)
1 cup chopped nuts (we use peanuts, but I didn't have any this time)

Assembly instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

1. Pour melted butter in 9 x13 pan.

2. Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs evenly on the layer of melted butter.

3. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over graham cracker crumb layer.

4. Sprinkle chips evenly over sweetened condensed milk.

5. Sprinkle coconut over chips.

6. Sprinkle topped nuts over coconut.

7. Press down gently to combine the layers.

8. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until coconut is lightly browned...not dark. (The edges get dark, but you want the main portion to just be golden.)

9. Cool and serve!

There you have it...yet another quick and easy sweet treat to make when you just have to have something sweet.