Christmas Magic Cookie Bars
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Hi there, I’m Christi and you can usually find me over at my blog, Love From The Oven. I am so happy to be back again for a second year here at In Katrina’s Kitchen “I’ll Bring The Cookies” event. I love Katrina and her blog. Katrina and I both started our blogs at the same time, I think down to the same week, so it’s been fun to watch our blogs grow together.
Today I’m sharing one of my favorite treats- Christmas Magic Cookie Bars
I used Nestle’s Holiday Baking Chips and some Christmas M&M’s, but use whatever you have or what sounds good to you. I also added in some red, green and white sprinkles for extra color and because sprinkles make everything sweeter.
All of your ingredients go into the pan and then you just pop it in the oven. So simple.
In addition to the amazing taste, I love that these bar cookies are so flexible. Whatever baking chips and bits you have in your pantry, you can use them up in these Christmas Magic Cookie Bars
I hope you enjoy this colorful spin on a classic dessert favorite.
Christmas Magic Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup chocolate chips, divided into 1/2 cup portions
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped, optional
- 1 cup M&M's candy
- 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
Instructions
- HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat a 13 x 9-inch baking pan generously with non-stick cooking spray.
- COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in a small bowl. Press into the bottom of a prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over the crumb mixture. Layer with coconut, chocolate chips, M&M candies, sprinkles, and nuts if desired. Press down firmly with a fork.
- BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on a wire rack for at least one hour. Cut into bars, serve, and enjoy.
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Thank you so much to Katrina for inviting me to the cookie party again this year. She is awesome, and I hope you enjoy all of the amazing cookie recipes in I’ll Bring The Cookies!
28 Comments on “Christmas Magic Cookie Bars”
Very disappointed in this recipe, like many others who have commented here. I have tried the recipe at least half a dozen times and the results are consistently a crumbly mess.
Does not say sweetened or plain coconut
Also do you use salted or unsalted butter
Made a double batch of these for the Christmas season and am a disappointed in the outcome. They are very crumbly and not the 7 layer bars I know and love. I have two recommendations. First, melt the butter and mix in the graham cracker crumbs in a separate bowl then spread in the bottom of the pan. Second, pour the sweetened condensed milk over the top, rather than immediately over the graham cracker layer. I did freeze them as another comment suggested so hopefully they will firm up and be ok.
I am making this recipe for Halloween using halloween colored m&m’s
I made these this weekend for christmas (found on pinterest) and they are delicious I followed the recipe to a T – but found they were very crumbly when I tried to cut them after allowing to cool for over 2 hours. Once I cut them, I had over half the graham cracker crumbles on the bottom of the pan. I put the cut up bars in a container and stored them in the cool basement (no heat down there) and sure enough, they are nice & solid now. I think maybe next time, I will put the pan in the freezer for maybe 30 mins once I think they are cooled on the counter even! Seems the cooler they are, the better they stick together! Just MY observation and wanted to pass it on! 🙂
I agree. I put them in the fridge over night and now they’re solid. It was a mess of crumbs and they were falling apart. Did not look like the picture. I’ll have to watch the ingredients too next time I think the flakes can just be 1cup.
Are you able to freeze these bars to make a ahead of time for Christmas??
Can I make these without coconut? No one in my family cares for that flavor. Any suggestions for substitutes? Thank you
I loved this recipe and made it today. But something went wrong for me! The M&M didn’t stay on the top like yours did. Pooh! I’ll try again but any ideas? Are you supposed to ‘tap’ them down first?
Just wondering if you have made these ahead of time and froze them….any experience on how they turned out?
I have never frozen them.
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We make these every year however, we call them Hello Dollies. We’ve never made them with M&M’s or colored chocolate chips but I am so doing that this year. It looks so festive and pretty! 🙂
Hello from Iowa! These bars look wonderful 🙂 I have some mini holiday m+ms they would work just as well don’t you think so ?
added ingredients to my list lol
Oooh my goodness, these look heavenly! Thank you for sharing! *_*
I'm so weak when it comes to magic bars and these Christmas-y ones looks absolutely amazing! those holiday M&Ms are dangerous to keep around
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I needed something very festive, colorful and wild.
These have to be it.
Love them!
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All these cookies look sooo good. I hope this comment will count toward the givaway, cause it would not let me post anywhere else. A diabolical plot to make me crave cookies even more by making me drool over them longer!!!
I love how festive and Christmasy these are. How fun!!
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I love how festive these are with the sprinkles and holiday M&M's!
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Ooo I totally need to make these with my bag of holiday chocolate chips. I could also add some chopped of holiday oreos
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Magic bars are one of my favorite. What can I say, they are just magical! 🙂 These are super festive and fun!
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My mom made these every Christmas, but I LOVE the addition of the red and green Christmas m&m's! So perfect and festive!
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Love these! So festive and delicious!
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Katrina, I am loving your event… all this inspiration in one place… loves it!!
Magic Cookie Bars scream CHRISTMAS! I stalk Christi's site as much as I stalk yours… I am here and there all.the.time. 😀
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