Sugar Cookie Magic Bars

Tammy
6 minutes ago
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"✨🍪 A fun, easy dessert made with a sugar cookie mix crust and layered with sweet, gooey toppings that bake into irresistible bars. Simple ingredients, big flavor, and endless ways to customize! 💕✨."

Sugar cookie magic bars baked with chocolate chips and coconut

✨🍪 Sugar Cookie Magic Bars Made Easy 🍫✨

If you’re looking for a dessert that’s ridiculously easy, completely customizable, and guaranteed to make people smile, my Sugar Cookie Magic Bars are about to become your new favorite bake! 💖 A traditional recipe turned modern! One bowl, one pan, and a whole lot of magic... Yes please! 🪄

Why You’ll Love These Magic Bars 💕

These bars start with a soft, buttery sugar cookie crust... thanks to a shortcut sugar cookie mix 🙌, then get layered with sweetened condensed milk and all your favorite toppings. As they bake, everything melts together into gooey, golden perfection. The hardest part? Waiting for them to cool before digging in! 😍

The Magic Behind the Bars ✨

The beauty of magic bars is how forgiving and fun they are. No fancy techniques, no stress... just layer, bake, and enjoy. The sugar cookie base adds a sweet, soft and cozy flavor that pairs perfectly with melty chocolate, chewy coconut, and crunchy nuts... if you’re into that!.

Make Them Your Own 🎨🍬

This is where the fun really starts! Magic bars are basically a blank canvas for your cravings:

🍫 Swap chocolate chips for peanut butter, white chocolate, or butterscotch chips
🥥 Love coconut? Add extra! Not a fan? Leave it out... no rules here
🍋 Want some sunshine? Add lemon extract, coconut, lemon zest, white chocolate chips and candied lemon bits.
🌈 Toss in mini marshmallows, sprinkles, or dried fruit for a fun twist

Perfect for Any Occasion 🎉

Bake sales, sleepovers, holidays, or just a cozy night at home... these bars fit every occasion. They store well, travel easily, and taste even better the next day... if they last that long 😄.

So grab that sugar cookie mix, preheat the oven, and let the magic happen! ✨

🍪Trust me... one bite and you’ll be hooked 💕

Sugar Cookie Magic Bars

Servings – 12 Prep Time – 5 Minutes + first cook time 20 Minutes

Cook Time - 20 + 30 Minutes

Chill Time - 2 Hours

Ingredients:

1 pouch sugar cookie mix such as Betty Crocker™
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup butter, softened or melted
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts nuts, optional - you can also use pecans or sliced almonds

Optional add-ins:

Mini M&M's®
Butterscotch chips
Toffee bits / Chopped Heath Bar

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 13×9-inch baking pan with parchment paper or generously coat it with cooking spray.

In a large bowl, combine the cookie mix, melted butter, vanilla and egg, stirring until a soft dough comes together. Press the dough evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan.

Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the edges turn lightly golden.

Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the chocolate chips, coconut, and chopped nuts over the crust.

Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the warm crust and toppings. Gently press the toppings into the mixture with a fork.

Return the pan to the oven and bake for 25–30 minutes, until the edges are golden and the top is set.

Let the bars cool completely in the pan on a wire rack before slicing. This helps ensure clean cuts, and setting of the crust.

Place in individual cupcake liners for easy serving. This is totally optional. Store bars in an airtight container.

Notes:

Magic bars are easy to personalize. Swap nuts for peanut butter chips, or add mini marshmallows, peppermint bits, mint or white chocolate chips, or even dried fruit to create your own flavor combination. ✨

Nutrition:

Serving Size: 1 bar (based on 12 bars per 9×13 pan)

💡Nutrition Notes:

Using different chips (peanut butter, white chocolate) or adding nuts will increase calories and fat

Cutting larger bars will raise the calorie count per serving

For slightly lighter bars, reduce chocolate chips or coconut

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