These graham cookie bars are easy to make with chocolate chips and butterscotch morsels.
Holiday baking season is in full swing! I don't know about you, but I always appreciate an easy, delicious recipe to add to my baking repertoire. These Graham Cookie Bars fit that description perfectly.
Dump everything into a bowl, mix it up, press it in a pan, and bake. You can't get much simpler than that.
I always prefer bar cookies to any other kind because, well, I'm just a lazy baker. And the older I get, the less patience I have with fiddly things in the kitchen. Or anywhere else for that matter. I'll take a dump and bake recipe any day over a mix, roll, refrigerate, and cut out recipe.
Another plus, in my opinion, is that this is an old - really old - recipe. It has been around for as long as I can remember and I have no idea where it originated. It has appeared in dozens of community and church cookbooks over the years (always a good recommendation if you ask me) but its absolute origin is unknown.
The original probably started with smashing up some graham crackers, but thankfully you can skip that step now and just purchase your crackers already pulverized. That's what I did.
How to Make Graham Cookie Bars
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Then very heavily butter or grease a square pan. Either an 8 or 9-inch pan works fine for this.
Place all your ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Make sure you get a nice, homogenous mixture.
Press it into your prepared pan and pop it in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool for 45 minutes on a rack. Cut into 1 ½" squares. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.
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Graham Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- Pinch of salt
- 14 ounces condensed milk (recommend: Eagle Brand)
- Powdered sugar optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Heavily butter an 8 or 9-inch square pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Stir until thoroughly combined.
- Press mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool in the pan on a rack for 45 minutes.
- Cut into 1 ½” squares. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.
Notes
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Renee says
I made these tonight after work because I really wanted a cookie but didn’t have energy to make them. These were so good and so easy!! I still can’t believe how few ingredients and how simple the recipe is. This will be my go to!!
Lana Stuart says
I love any baking recipe that's easy and tastes delicious, too! These cookie bars sure do fit that description :-) Glad you enjoyed them!
Ruth Hempsey says
I cut a recipe out of a woman's magazine in the late 1960's, which was for Butterscotch Fudgies.
I've made it every Christmas ever since, and my children, who have all now reached their fifties, gave them the name Candy Cake because they loved them so much.
I still have that original clipping but of course the recipe is now on cards and copies have been handed down to my daughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughters.
This is that recipe. Searching for it brought up many others with some of the same ingredients but only yours is exactly the same as the one I make. It's delicious and keeps for ages in a cookie tin on parchment paper.
Lana Stuart says
Isn't that funny! I've had that recipes for ages but don't remember where it came from. I agree - it's so very good.
Miss P says
I too confess. I do not like to make cookies. All that repetitive work drives me crazy. That's why these bar cookies are right up my alley. Can't wait to make them.
Miss P
Bessy Krauss says
I am so excited to come across this recipe! It takes me back to my earliest days in the kitchen learning to cook. Standing on a chair with a rolling pin crushing graham crackers and mixing in the condensed milk...hard work for a three year old! But so satisfying. These cookies were also my first solo cooking project. Need I say that this was Mother's go to cookie recipe? I've thought of these cookies a lot over the years, but never could remember the proportions. So, thank you Lana, for the trip down memory lane. I now have a (partial) container of yummy cookies in my kitchen, and yes, they taste exactly the same as they did in the fifties....delicious!!!
Lana Stuart says
I'm so pleased that I could provide that old favorite recipe for you, Bessy! Enjoy them!
Nancy says
No butter.....no eggs??
Lana Stuart says
Yes, that's right.