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I’m so excited to share our favorite recipe for Hello Dolly Bars with you. These are SO good and just take a few ingredients. Take a look!
Hello Dolly Bars Recipe
I’m so excited to share our family’s favorite recipe for Hello Dolly Bars with you . . . I just love baking these ooey gooey treats!
These Hello Dolly Bars are ALWAYS an absolute winner.
We’ve made them every Thanksgiving and Christmas for the last fifteen years, and sometimes will sneak in an extra batch at New Year’s (right before starting those new diet resolutions. . . ) My mother-in-law shared the recipe with me years ago, and now we enjoy them so much during the Holiday season.
Ingredients needed:
- butter
- graham cracker crumbs
- coconut
- semi-sweet chocolate chip morsels
- butterscotch chips
- nuts (optional)
- sweetened condensed milk
- extra milk (as needed per instructions)
Take a peek at my daughter Reagan and me as we made these bars a few years ago (and goodness, cooking with her when she was little in the kitchen was always an adventure, and hasn’t changed much!)
It was all she could do back then to hold it together and not gobble down ever last Nestle Toll House Morsel . . . and not much has changed a few years later. 😉
Hello Dolly Bars
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 cups coconut
- 2 cups Nestle Semi Sweet Morsels
- 1 cup Nestle Butterscotch Chips
- 2 cups nuts optional, we've never used them but you might enjoy them!
- 1 can Nestle sweetened condensed milk
- additional milk see directions
Instructions
- Melt margarine and mix in graham cracker crumbs.
- Spread in greased 9×13 pan.
- Sprinkle next four ingredients in layers (or three if you skip the nuts . . . if you love nuts go for it, if not, skip them!!!)
- Mix milk and enough additional milk to equal 2 cups.
- Drizzle milk mixture over layers.
- Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cool, and slice into bars . . . heaven!!!
(This recipe is part of our 12 Days of Christmas Baking series & is definitely one of the most popular recipes)
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Oh my goodness, how old was Reagan back then? I’ve tried four recipes so far out of the One Pot box and all have been delicious so far and husband approved! I will have to try these yummy looking bars. ❤️
She was around 5 when that video was made. She was so little! We are thrilled you and your husband are loving the One Pot box. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the Hello Dolly Bars! 🙂
Can you please clarify your instructions on the milk? So you add a can of sweetened condensed milk and then add additional milk to make 2 cups? Is the additional milk more sweetened condensed milk or whole milk? I was just a little confused.
Hi Barbara! Pour the sweetened condensed milk into a 2 cup Pyrex – it’ll equal about a cup I think. Then add enough regular milk (skim, 1%, 2% or whole – I’ve used all of them and they all work!) to make 2 cups. Hope that helps! 🙂
My daughter and granddaughter and I started our Christmas baking and we used your recipe for the hello dolly bars which I have made for years but thought I’d try your recipe. I’m sorry they came out terrible by adding regular milk to the sweeten condensed milk. I had to toss the entire Pyrex dish of this mess in the trash. The added milk made it soggy and taste terrible.
Oh no! That’s how we’ve always made them? I wish I knew what happened? I’m so sorry! 🙁
Hello
Any suggestions on how to get these to set up? I have never made them with the added milk and have baked them for an hour now and they are still pretty liquid.
Thank you!
They should set up after you take them out of the oven Vanessa – hope that helps!
Can you replace the coconut with something else?
Not really Julie? I don’t know what they’d be like either without the coconut… ugh! Can’t imagine they’d be bad, just night quite the same texture. If anyone has any suggestions let us know!
I’m going to make these with my daughter! Thanks for sharing!
Hope you all enjoy them Shanda!
When I saw this recipe it brought back a flood of memories!!! My grandmother (may she rest in peace) made Hello Dolly Bars for all our special occasions. I wish I had asked her the origin of the recipe (and name), as I have seen it called other things over the years, but never Hello Dolly! Thanks for the great deja vu moment. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
How sweet Meryl ~ I’ve always wondered where the name originated too and will have to figure that out! I love that your grandmother made them too, there’s just something special about passing on treasured recipes with our family. 🙂
That little Reagan is just precious!!!! Can’t wait to make this!
She’s a mess Alice! Let me know of you all like them 🙂