One of my favorite treats to make (Ok, I will admit it – eat) during the holidays is Seven-Layer Bars.
These are so easy to make and taste so delicious. People will think you have slaved over them when it is really so simple. The first year I made these my youngest niece, the one who got stuck wreath making with me, nearly floundered on them. Yes, they really are that good.
Last year, I took my two grand-nieces for a day of shopping and fun. We ended up eating lunch at a restaurant that offered the most wonderful dessert – a warm Seven-Layer Bar topped by vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. I thought I would melt in a puddle right there and the girls would have to find a ride home. I only half-melted because Katie, who shares my chocoholic genes, wanted a bite and then promptly inhaled the rest of my treat. Sweet little whippersnapper. Pulling out cute smiles and warm hugs while she steals my chocolate. My gracious goodness.
Anyway, here is the recipe! Enjoy!
Ingredients
Melt butter in the pan in the oven.
Top butter with graham cracker crumbs. Since I'm a lazy slug, I save the graham cracker packages from cheesecake mixes because they have just the right amount of pre-crushed graham crackers for this recipe (cheesecake filling goes in store-made graham cracker crusts, of course!).
Up next - sweetened coconut.
Chocolate chips followed by butterscotch chips make the next two layers.
Here come the pecans. If you have whole nuts and don't own fancy nut-crushing kitchen tools, a meat tenderizer and a ziploc bag do a bang-up job!
Finish it off with the sweetened condense milk. Remember, do not stir!
Seven-Layer Bars
Seven-Layer Bars
1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp. butter
1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup chopped pecans
15-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Put butter in a 9 x 9 or a 11 x 7 inch baking pan. Put into oven and let melt. When it is melted pull out and top with ingredients in the following order: graham crackers, coconut, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, pecans, sweetened condensed milk.
DO NOT STIR! REPEAT – DO NOT STIR!
Just layer the ingredients and then place in the oven for about 30-40 minutes until bubbling and brown.
The smell will be heavenly when you pull them from the oven.
Cut into small squares because these babies are rich. Serve alone or with ice cream and caramel sauce. Just make sure no chocolate-thieving 7-year-olds are around!
Happy Holiday Entertaining,
The chocolate-less aunt
Savvy Entertaining 
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