7-Layer Cookies, Hello Dollies, Magic Bars. These cookie bars are known by a few names, but mainly they’re known as delicious. My mom made them, my aunt makes them, my sister makes them; they’re like part of the family.
Blogging about desserts and cookies for the last 10 years, quite a few sweets have passed through our kitchen. When our son Jack left for college, I asked him what desserts he’d like me to make before heading to school. He only asked for one: 7-Layer Cookies.
7-layer cookies are so simple to make, and they’re also easy to play around with to incorporate other flavors. I’ll show you a couple of variations at the end of the post. First, the original. As much fun as it is to play with other ingredients, there’s something magical about the combination of flavors in the original. Maybe part of it is nostalgia. You know what? Nostalgia tastes good.
The ingredients: graham crackers, melted butter, coconut, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, sweetened condensed milk, and pecans. Basically, you layer these ingredients in a pan and bake. Bada bing, bada cookie.
For the grahams, you’ll really want fine crumbs. I either buy the graham cracker crumbs or give them a good whir in the food processor. Fine crumbs do a better job at soaking up the melted butter.
Combine the crumbs and melted butter. Press into the pan.
Top with sweetened, shredded coconut.
Scatter on semisweet chocolate chips.
Then, add butterscotch chips.
Pour a can of sweetened condensed milk over the top.
Chopped pecans top off the cookies.
Bake for 25 minutes. They don’t look much different, but you can see where the sweetened condensed milk bubbled up around the edges.
Let the bar cool in the pan, and here’s our family secret: We refrigerate them and serve them cold.
Are 7-Layer Cookies a tradition in your house, too? If you call them by another name, let me know!
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