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Grex Kitchen Item 118: searching for this mystery cookie bar
Entered by iggy on Wed Apr 17 13:12:22 UTC 1996:

bear with me, folks.
i dont know the name of this cookie-bar thing, but i really like it.
it is topped with nuts, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips,
coconut, and something sweet to bind it together.
it sits atop a cookie-like base.
anyone ever have this? do you know how it is made?
the recipe! i need the recipe! <pant pant>

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by popcorn on Wed Apr 17 23:28:23 1996:

Is it a commercial product or something people bake at home?
I think someone brought something (homemade) like that to the
cookie exchange at my office last December.  They were really
good.  I'd like to find the recipe too.  I'll ask around at
my office....

#2 of 9 by robh on Thu Apr 18 17:55:12 1996:

This item is linked from Cooking 118 to Intro 12.
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of cooking, bread-making, food guessing, and the like.

#3 of 9 by iggy on Thu Apr 18 19:18:23 1996:

as far as i know, it is a home baked treat.

#4 of 9 by jimel on Mon Apr 22 15:42:43 1996:

Please bear with me and correct my ignorance I'm a virgin at this and didn't
know how to enter my own question so I/m just going to "piggy-back" it onto
igor von heiniken's.  Does anyone know how to make New York onion rolls such
as those sold in any good Jewish bakery?

#5 of 9 by remmers on Mon Apr 22 17:35:46 1996:

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#6 of 9 by popcorn on Wed May 15 01:25:17 1996:

Ta da!  It took work to get hold of this, but here it is:


7 Layer Cookies

1/2 cup butter
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut
6 ounces butterscotch bits
6 ounces chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups chopped nuts
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Mix crumbs with melted butter and press into 8 x 8 pan.  Add other items one
at a time.  Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

The recipe is from Patty Meldrum; her daughter Kaylene brought these to a
cookie exchange at my office last December.

#7 of 9 by freida on Wed May 15 18:19:51 1996:

Gee, the 7 layer cookies we always made are lots different!  

Take chocolate wafers and place homemade whipped cream with a little sugar
and vanilla mixed into it between wafers.  Wrap long roll of filled wafers
in plastic wrap and place in freezer.  To serve, cut on an angle producing
7 layers.  They are quite yummy!

#8 of 9 by iggy on Sat May 18 00:14:53 1996:

wow! thanks valerie!!
i'm going to write this on my shopping list for this weekend.

#9 of 9 by popcorn on Fri Dec 27 17:21:07 1996:

A few days ago I tried making the recipe in #6 for the first time.
It didn't work out right.  Maybe it's because I made a number of changes
to the recipe.  My current theory is that the problem was that I used
"lowfat sweetened condensed milk" instead of regular.  The can said it
is okay to substitute the lowfat kind for the regular kind in any recipe.
The condensed milk on the cookie tops was still liquidy after lots more than
the required 20 minutes of baking.  When eventually it did start getting
dryer, it turned dark brown and sort of carmelized.  It glued itself
(possibly permanently) to the non-stick pan I baked the cookie bars in.
The resulting "cookies" need to be eaten with a spoon.  Sigh.
Still, the spoon-eaten cookies ("layered pudding"? ;) ) are delicious.
This is definitely worth trying again until the recipe is perfected.

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