7 Layer Magic Cookies Bars

Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bars are magically such as you remember them, but an entire lot more healthy! With entire ingredients like honest alternate chocolate chips, homemade sweetened condensed milk-meets-caramel, and shaved dried coconut, you’ll LOVE the equal classic flavors however sense better about them. additionally, look forward to a nutty, grain-loose shortbread crust! This festive deal with may be made Keto, Low Carb or Paleo — All turn out perfectly, and you’ll love bringing them to share for holiday events or different gatherings. With 5 layers those bars are already best, so don’t experience misleading 😉 in case you call them Seven Layer Bars. in any case, a Seven Layer Bar is a type of cookie: The subject has a shortbread crust, a caramelly layer of sweetened condensed milk, layers of shaved coconut, pecans or walnuts and chocolate chips!
The shortbread crust for those cookie bars is a aggregate of nuts and coconut flour, to create a flaky, crumbly, smooth crumb that’s pie crust-meets-cookie. This nut-coconut flour crust is Keto/Low Carb or Paleo, depending the sweetener you use.


Ingredients
Shortbread Crust

  • 1-1/3 cups macadamia nuts flour (or walnut flour, pulse nuts in food processor) or use blanched almond flour
  • 1 cup butter (melted and cooled slightly, or coconut oil for dairy-free)
  • 2/3 cup coconut flour
  • 1/2 cup Swerve (Swerve for Keto/Low Carb; coconut sugar for Paleo)
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream or coconut cream
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 Tablespoons collagen peptides (see link and discount code in Recipe Notes)
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda (sifted)
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Sweetened Condensed Milk/Caramel Sauce

  • 1 cup heavy cream or coconut cream
  • 3/4 cup Swerve Brown Sugar (or coconut sugar for Paleo)
  • 1/8 teaspoon sea salt

Toppings

  • 1-1/4 cups + 2 Tablespoons pecan pieces
  • 1-1/4 cups dried coconut (unsweetened)
  • 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons low carb chocolate chips (Use Lily's for Keto/Low Carb, use Fair Trade Paleo or standard chips according to dietary choices; see Recipe Notes for links and tips on the best chocolate chips)

commands

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. In huge metal bowl combine dry crust ingredients: nut flour, sweetener, coconut flour, collagen, baking soda and sea salt. blend together well.
  3. In a small bowl combine often cooled butter, cream, egg yolks and apple cider vinegar. add beverages to flours. Use hand-held mixer or a fork to thoroughly combine substances.
  4. unfold and press crust ingredients over the lowest of nine" with the aid of 13" pan or casserole dish. (it will likely be sticky like cookie dough.) moist 4 arms of 1 hand to pat dough into pan and save you sticking.
  5. Bake in preheated oven 15-20 mins. (Walnut-based crusts burn extra without difficulty, so watch intently. If the top of the crust burns a piece, it'll not affect the crust's overall outcome.) even as it bakes, make the condensed milk.

Sweetened Condensed Milk

  1. vicinity cream in heavy bottomed saucepan. add sweetener. warmth over excessive warmth, stirring the complete time until the sweetener is completely dissolved and cream is steaming hot however not but simmering. lessen heat to medium. Do not stir anymore.
  2. Keto, Low Carb version with Swerve: permit cream to speedy simmer/gradual boil 14 minutes. Paleo version with coconut sugar: permit cream to fast simmer/slow boil eight minutes. get rid of from heat, and use within five-10 mins. Do now not make ahead, because it will installation and does no longer reheat properly.
  3. assembly
  4. Sprinkle 1-1/four cups pecans over floor of baked crust. pinnacle with half of cup chocolate chips. whilst sweetened condensed milk has cooled five-10 minutes max, pour it over the pecans and chocolate chips. top with shredded coconut and press down gently on coconut. pinnacle with remaining 2 Tablespoons pecans and half cup + 2 Tablespoons chocolate chips (setting these chocolate chips on top prevents all the chocolate chips from melting below the recent caramel).
  5. allow to cool to room temperature, about 2-3 hours. reduce into 24 bars if moderating carbs, or large pieces if desired, and serve.

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