Christmas Magic Cookie bars are a fun and festive way to dress up one of everyone’s favorite desserts. They are perfect for holiday treat trays and cookie exchanges. When it comes to easy recipes, it’s hard to beat these delicious bars. You can have a batch of these seven layer bars in the oven in under ten minutes!

Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe

Extremely Easy – When it comes to holiday dessert recipes, it truly doesn’t get easier than these magic cookie bars. All ingredients are layered into a baking pan, and they’re good to go.
Fun and Festive – Thanks to colorful holiday M&M candies, these bars are as pretty as they are delicious.
Terrific Texture – These bars are crunchy, chocolatey and creamy all wrapped into one thanks to the combination of graham crackers, coconut and sweetened condensed milk.
Fabulously Fast – In less than ten minutes, you can have a batch of these bars in the oven.

Christmas Magic Cookie Bars from Love From The Oven

If you’ve ever tried a magic cookie bar, also referred to as Seven Layer Bars, you know how delicious they are. If you’ve ever made them, you know how easy they are. They are truly one of my all time favorite desserts! I’ve made Caramel Magic Cookie Bars, Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Cookie Bars, Peppermint Oreo Magic Cookie Bars and Peanut Butter Cup Magic Cookie Bars. Now it’s time for Christmas Magic Cookie Bars!

How To Make Christmas Magic Cookie Bars

These bars only require a handful of ingredients. Let’s discuss what you’ll need, and the steps you’ll take, to make these bars. My goal is to provide you with information to help you be successful when making this recipe in your kitchen. If you want to skip my discussion, tips, information and answers to frequently asked questions, just scroll to the bottom for the full printable recipe.

Ingredients

Non-stick cooking spray – Another option is to grease the pan with butter.
Graham cracker crumbs – You can buy crumbs or make your own from graham crackers.
Butter – Salted butter is my preference, but unsalted will also work.
Sweetened Condensed Milk – Make sure you use sweetened condensed and not evaporated milk.
Chocolate Chips – Semi-sweet work well, as milk chocolate can be a bit too sweet in this recipe.
Sweetened Flaked Coconut
Holiday M&Ms – Feel free to get creative with the different flavors and colors of holiday M&Ms that are available.
Sprinkles – These are optional, but you can add sprinkles for an additional pop of color.

Directions

HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan generously with non-stick cooking spray.
COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer with coconut, chocolate chips, M&M candies and sprinkles (if used). Press down firmly with fork.
BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on a wire rack for at least one hour. Cut into bars, serve and enjoy.

Tips

Store bars tightly wrapped at room temperature for up to five days.
These bars are quite rich, letting you get 24 servings out of a batch.
To make it easier to remove bars from pan, line entire pan with foil, using enough foil that it extends over the sides. Coat with non-stick cooking spray. After baking and bars have cooled, entire pan of bars can be lifted out of the pan by using the foil edges to lift out.
Wait to cut bars until they are completely cool.

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Christmas Magic Cookie Bars

5 from 9 votes

Author Christi Johnstone

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Fun and festive Christmas Magic Cookie Bars are a fantastic holiday treat, and great for Christmas cookie exchanges.

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings bars

Ingredients

▢ Non-Stick Cooking Spray
▢ 1 and 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
▢ 1/2 cup melted butter
▢ 1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
▢ 1 cup chocolate chips
▢ 1 1/2 cup Holiday M&M candies
▢ 1 1/3 cup flaked coconut

Instructions

HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan generously with non-stick cooking spray.
COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer with coconut, chocolate chips, M&M candies, sprinkles and nuts if desired. Press down firmly with fork.
BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on a wire rack for at least one hour. Cut into bars, serve and enjoy.

Notes

Store tightly covered for up to 5 days.

Nutrition

Disclaimer

Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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I originally shared this recipe on one of my favorite blogs, In Katrina’s Kitchen in her “I’ll Bring The Cookies” collection. If you haven’t checked it out, you MUST.

Christmas Magic Cookie Bars