Ever since I can remember my daughter Kelsi has been playing soccer…the story behind her playing was when she was only 5 years old and she wanted to play the game but was so scared she ran off the field.  Our coach at the time was amazing as he knew exactly what to do to get her to stay on the field.  For her second game, he told her that if she ran off the field the team would lose the game.  No way did Kelsi want to lose the game because she ran off the field, so instead, she stayed in the field and just ran to the line and stood there crying.  By the third game, something had changed inside of her and she not only played the game but fell in love with the sport.  I am very proud of all she has worked on and accomplished with the sport.

So, what does Kelsi playing soccer have to do with my chewy, gooey, coconut magic bars?  I’ll tell you…take the story I just shared with you (and for all those soccer moms you get this), jump ahead 10 years and think about high school soccer.  In high school, no one brings treats after a game, everyone just sits and cheers on their teams.  When I say no one brings treats, as the girls are now teenagers, I mean no one else but me.  Yes, I brought my chewy, gooey, coconut magic bars and I can share that all the girls just loved them and they were so appreciative that now I get requests for my chewy, gooey, coconut magic bars, it is very cute.

Kelsi has been in summer school and she and her good friend Amanda studied together yesterday for their final exams, I knew that Amanda loved my chewy, gooey, coconut magic bars so I whipped up this batch, just for her, and brought them over.

It’s a super easy recipe, while my oven was preheating, I took my graham crackers (I used 2 1/2 of the 3 packs, 20 pieces), almost the whole box

I put them in a bag and used my rolling pin to smash them

I did one package at a time

I melted my butter and poured it over my crushed graham crackers, you want enough butter so that your crushed graham crackers stick together when you squeeze them

you put your prepared graham crackers in your pan and press it down

add your chocolate chips (I used a bit too many, follow the directions as we thought they were a bit chocolatey)

I sprinkled my coconut (I used both sweetened and unsweetened)

I poured my sweetened condensed milk evenly on top

baked it for about 26-28 minutes

Sliced it up and brought it to Amanda’s house…YUM!

While my photo is a great photo, these bars are very sweet so I would recommend cutting them up into smaller pieces.  You can modify this recipe by adding nuts, peanut chips or be creative but you can not remove the coconut or condensed milk.  I hope you enjoy this super easy recipe.

Thank you for visiting my site and I hope you enjoy this recipe.  I do love comments so please feel free to leave me your comment or suggestion.  If you would like to be kept up to date with all my new recipes, I only post twice a week,  please subscribe in the box listed on the top of the page “Subscribe Via Email”. You will be emailed with a link to confirm you are interested in the subscription so be sure to click on that link too.  Thank you again!

Here is a video tutorial of me showing you how easy this recipe really is to make.  Please visit my YouTube channel and subscribe and like my videos, it encourages me to continue making them and thank you again for all the support I receive and the emails.

.

.