Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

You might have heard of these bars under a different titles, such as Seven Layer Bars or Magic Bars. The big thing about this type of bar is that it is made up of seven different layers.

1. A graham cracker crust
2.  Nuts
3. Chocolate chips
4. White chocolate chips
5. Butterscotch chips
6. Sweetened condensed milk
7. Toasted, shredded coconut.

The only change the boys at Baked made was to use the coconut in the crust, along with the graham crackers. This makes for a mighty tasty, albeit crumbly, crust. These are some of the sweetest things to have come out of my kitchen in a very long time, and to even try to eat them without a glass of milk is pure folly.

The crust is a standard graham cracker crust (with toasted coconut added) held together with butter. The buttery crumb mixture is pressed into a pan, refrigerated briefly and then baked until toasty. I liked this crust, but I thought it had too much butter in it. Next time, I’ll reduce the butter slightly.

Once the crust is cooled, it’s topped with a layer of walnuts (sliced almonds, in my case), semisweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. And if that isn’t enough sweetness, two cans of sweetened, condensed milk are poured over the entire thing. This sugar bomb gets baked until the condensed milk is brown and bubbling.

We could only eat these bars in small, small squares, but they were pretty good. Besides reducing the butter in the crust, if I make these again, I’ll increase the amount of semisweet chocolate and reduce the white chocolate chips and the butterscotch chips.