Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars with Chocolate Shortbread Crust
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These will not last long at a party! Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars with Chocolate Shortbread Crust have a buttery shortbread crust with layers of pecan pie flavors.
Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars
Magic Cookie Bars are also known as Seven Layer Bars and Hello Dolly Bars.
Traditional Magic Cookie Bars are layers of ingredients, beginning with a graham cracker crust and ending with sweetened condensed milk. When baked, the sweetened condensed milk binds everything together, and they magically become one gooey, crunchy, amazing dessert bar.
For my Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars with Chocolate Shortbread Crust, I used the same concept but changed the ingredients to taste like Pecan Pie. They are wonderful!
Ingredients
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- Butter room temperature
- Granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour sifted
- Cocoa sifted
- Pecans chopped fine
- Kraft Caramel Bits
- Shredded coconut
- Sweetened condensed milk
Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars with Chocolate Shortbread Crust
My layers start with a chocolate shortbread crust. Next, I layered pecans, caramel, coconut, and the magical sweetened condensed milk. After 30 minutes in the oven, the sweetened condensed milk sticks all the layers together. And, it was a wonderful thing!
The great thing about this recipe is that it’s customizable. If you don’t like coconut, use less, leave it out, and layer on more pecans or caramel. Broken pretzels would also be amazing on this version of Magic Bars. You can also use chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or M&Ms would be good.
Similar recipes
Once your pecan pie bars are baked, let them cool before cutting them. The sweetened condensed milk needs to cool and set. Otherwise, they’ll be a gooey mess.
You get multiple flavors and textures when you bite into these. They are creamy, crunchy, sweet, and salty. It’s hard to have just one!
Recipes similar to these pecan pie bars are:
- CHOCOLATE PECAN SHORTBREAD BARS
- TRIPLE BERRY MAGIC BARS RECIPE
- OREO MAGIC BARS
- FROSTED SUGAR COOKIE BARS
- GRAHAM CRACKER COOKIE BARS
- You can also find great recipes here.
Pecan Pie Magic Cookie Bars with Chocolate Shortbread Crust
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Ingredients
For the crust
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 2/3 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
- 1 cup pecans chopped fine
For the bars
- 1 cup pecans whole or chopped
- 1 cup Caramel Bits
- 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
- 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9×9 inch baking pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add vanilla, flour, cocoa, and pecans and stir until blended. Press dough into prepared pan as evenly as you can. The dough will be thin. Bake 20 minutes until lightly brown around edges.
- Layer on Kraft Caramel Bits, coconut, pecans, and sweetened condensed milk.
- Bake 27 to 30 minutes or until center of bars is set. Cool completely before cutting.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Do you add the cocoa with the flour? thanks!
Yes, I corrected the recipe. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
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This should be on my must-make list!
Wow, now I have a sweet tooth!!
Those cookie bars look delicious!
What size pan are you using?
9×9 inch square pan.
oh my goodness, I didn’t write out the recipe completely! ek! Thanks for pointing this out.