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Continuing to scrounge for recipes to add to the blog during a pandemic. There are a lot to choose from in the book but my kids demanded I make something specific that they were craving this week and it fits the theme of this blog, so here it is: Magic Bars. (I don’t even know where I got this recipe. It’s written on an index card and pasted into my dessert cookbook so it’s probably from when I was a kid.) (yes, I have a dessert cookbook. It’s one of those old photo albums with the plastic sheets you pull up to put the photos under and I put index cards or scraps of paper or recipes I've cut out of magazines or newspapers or printed off the internet.) (the plastic protects the pages from drips and messes when I cook.)

This blog is all about recreating or remixing food or mentions of things that can be eaten. Hence the sage brownies post, which was a mix of how Baz and Simon describe Penny. And the ‘blood’, which was featured in the most recent post. The Humdrum ‘eats’ magic, so this seemed a fitting recipe to add to the collection. 

“Agatha folds her arms. “but the Humdrum’s still out there eating magic, isn’t he?” Carry On, Chapter 23. 

Magic Bars: 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs (you could probably use any plain biscuit--biscoff, mcvities, whatever is available)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup salted caramel chips (you could use butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips instead or in addition!)

1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

1 (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (I’ve made this with regular sweetened condensed milk and coconut non-dairy sweetened condensed milk--both work well.)

1/2 cup walnuts or pecans (I omitted this when I made it as I do not do well allergy-wise with nuts as of recently.)

Method: 

Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray and set aside (or you can just butter the pan) (not with the butter you are saving for the recipe)

Melt the butter in a small saucepan or in the microwave. 

Remove butter from heat and stir in graham cracker crumbs until thoroughly combined. 

Press into the bottom of the greased 9x13 pan

Evenly sprinkle the remaining ingredients one by one over the crust to form layers, beginning with the chocolate chips then the other flavor chips you have chosen, then the coconut flakes, and then lastly the nuts (if you choose to use them)

Pour the condensed milk evenly over the top and spread with a rubber spatula if needed (it got messy when I did that so I bailed)

Bake in pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes until edges are just slightly browned.

Cool completely before cutting. Store remaining pieces in an airtight container to prevent drying out. Enjoy!

Here is the recipe without the photos.

Magic Bars:

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs (you could probably use any plain biscuit--biscoff, mcvities, whatever is available)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup salted caramel chips (you could use butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips instead or in addition!) (the more the merrier.) 

1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

1 (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (I’ve made this with regular sweetened condensed milk and coconut non-dairy sweetened condensed milk--both work well.)

1/2 cup walnuts or pecans (I omitted this when I made it as I do not do well allergy-wise with nuts as of recently.)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray and set aside (or you can just butter the pan) (not with the butter you are saving for the recipe)

Melt the butter in a small saucepan or in the microwave.

Remove butter from heat and stir in graham cracker crumbs until thoroughly combined.

Press into the bottom of the greased 9x13 pan

Evenly sprinkle the remaining ingredients one by one over the crust to form layers, beginning with the chocolate chips then the other flavor chips you have chosen, then the coconut flakes, and then lastly the nuts (if you choose to use them)

Pour the condensed milk evenly over the top and spread with a rubber spatula if needed (it got messy when I did that so I bailed)

Bake in pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes until edges are just slightly browned.