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
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.
More Magic Cookie Bar Recipes
More Christmas Recipes To Try
- Hot Chocolate Brownie Cups
- Christmas Rice Krispie Treats
- Chocolate M&M Cookies
- Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
- Melted Snowman Cookies
- Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies
- Christmas Tree Brownies
- Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
- Gingerbread Man Cookies
- Eggnog Cookies
- Peppermint Bark Cookies
- Shortbread Cookies
- See ALL Christmas Cookies recipes
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Christmas Magic Cookie 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
Nutrition
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
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.
Meet Christi, Love From The Oven
I’m Christi I love sharing easy & delicious recipes that your family & friends will love. I’m a mom, baker, cookbook author and lover of sprinkles.
I grew up on magic cookie bars as part of our Christmas treat table. This year they are making a come back. Thanks for the recipe. They turned out exactly how I remembered them. Merry Christmas!
My m&m’s all melted together too. Followed recipe and only baked for 20 minutes. Not sure what went wrong.
Umm my Christmas color m&m’s all melted in pan. It looks like smeared food coloring. Not sure what I did wrong, Looks nothing like your picture 🤷♀️
hi the cookies were so good I cooked them and there grate.
Thank you for bringing the cookies! ♥