These festive Holiday “Hello Dolly” Cookie Bars are a perfect addition to holiday cookie trays, dessert tables, and let’s not forget about nibbles for Santa!
What you see here are seven layers of ooey gooey melty buttery deliciousness. Come holidays, this was a cookie bar we grew accustomed to having. Mom would make Hello Dollies and year after year they were an undeniable highlight of any table they graced! It only makes sense that I would share them here with you this time of year. <3
These bars are all about the layers!
- Begin with a 13×9″ pan filled with a shallow puddle of melted unsalted butter…
- Scatter graham cracker crumbs over top…
- Next – like Charlie Brown snowflakes – let the shredded coconut fly…
- Then, using both chocolate and butterscotch chips (that just so happen to possess an uncanny resemblance to tiny elf hats), create a mosaic that’s as pretty as the view in a child’s kaleidoscope…
- Let us not forget the chopped pecans…
- Unite them all with a thorough pour of sweetened condensed milk…
- Count your layers – should be 7…. (the chips each count as their own)
- Bake…
- Cool…
- Slice…
- Enjoy…
How sweet is that?
Speaking of sweet – it’s that time of year! The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange!
Erin, at The Speckled Palate, creator of this sweet celebration of all things sugar, has added an extra sweet component to our cookie exchange this year. We’re partnering with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer to raise both money and awareness. This charity, founded in 2008, is committed to funding research to help develop less toxic, more effective treatments for children battling cancer. They provide inspiration and support to individuals, businesses, and organizations to raise funds by hosting grassroots bake sales and other fund raising events. If you would like to join us in our support, please consider making a donation through our fundraising page. 🙂
And don’t forget to check out the many festive cookie recipes that my blogger friends are sharing all this week.
I can just imagine those cookie trays now!
Buon Appetito!
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Holiday “Hello Dolly” Cookie Bars
- Category: Dessert
Description
These festive Holiday “Hello Dolly” Cookie Bars are a perfect addition to holiday cookie trays, dessert tables, and let’s not forget about nibbles for Santa!
Ingredients
- 1 stick of unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup semi-sweet holiday colored chocolate morsels
- 1 cup butterscotch morsels
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a 13×9″ pan layer ingredients starting with the melted butter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 – 35 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let cool before slicing into bars.
- Enjoy!
Forgot to pin? Here you go!
CIAO!
I love how fun and festive these are! I’ve never heard of a Hello Dolly bar before. But they are perfect for the holidays – chewy and crunchy – an easy treat that everyone will love! Hope you had a great weekend.
Thank you, Geraldine! Hope your weekend was wonderful, too! 🙂
I love the pops of red and green to make these even more festive. Such a great cookie for a great cause!
A great cookie for a great cause…we can’t beat that! Thank you, my friend!
These cookies are SO festive and delicious and those layers are seriously swoon-worthy! I’ve never made a Hello Dolly Bar before, but it’s clearly time I did because everything you used in these bars just sounds fabulous for the season and for celebrations.
It has been so much fun seeing everyone bring a cookie to the mix and help raise awareness and money and spread holiday cheer this week. 🙂 Thank you, thank you, thank you for participating in this year’s Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange!
This is a highlight of my blogging year! Thank you for organizing such a wonderful, meaningful event! Everyone brought out the big guns! Just gorgeous! 🙂
These make me SO excited Annie!! I had my first hello dolly bar this past week (can you believe it)? And I am HOOKED. I feel like they could be my new favourite Christmas treat. Yours are gorgeous!!
I can never pass on a Hello Dolly, either! Thank you, friend!!
Whoa! Do these Hello Dolly bars say Hello Christmas or what!?!?!
They really do! Happy holidays, my friend! xo
Oh my goodness… these Hello Dolly cookie bars are what my childhood dreams are made of. My Ma made these every year, but she called them chippy dippy squares. Ooey gooey and over the top sweet… we loved them! I can’t wait to check out all the links of the holiday round up. What fun, Annie! Happy cookie season! xo
Chippy Dippy Squares! I love that! These are a fun holiday classic! Thanks, my friend! xo
Hi Anne! These are one of my all time faves too! Have been making them for years and sometimes substitute peanut butter chips for the butterscotch. Will definitely add the fun colors!
Yum! Will definitely try them with the peanut butter chips! Happy holidays, my friend!
I make a similar cookie, but nothing that looks this festive! Love the addition of the holiday chocolate chips! Need to make this recipe! It would be a huge hit with my husband’s family!! Happy holiday baking Annie!!
So wonderful! Thanks, my friend! Enjoy!! 🙂
I love this festive take on Hello Dolly bars, Annie! Perfect edible gift for the holidays.
They are a sweet gift! Thanks, friend!
How fun and festive are these bars?! I absolutely LOVE the looks of them! Definitely a show-stopper on the holiday dessert table!
Thanks, Gayle!!
These look amazing! I definitely need to step it up with the cookie bar variety, I normally go the traditional round or tacky Christmas shapes route. Beautiful colors too!
Nothing you do is tacky! I bet your cookie bars are the coolest! Thanks, friend!
Talk about a festive cookie!! They are so cute! I’ve never had a Hello Dolly Bar and I can see I’ve been missing a real taste treat. I’ll be sure to make a batch!! Pinning!
Aren’t they adorable! You will love them, Marisa!! 🙂
These are so festive Annie and they sound totally delish! Need to bake a batch! Can’t wait to check out all the other cookies too! Such a great cause!
Thanks, Mary Ann! You’re sure to find so many delicious cookie recipes!! 🙂
My cookie bar dreams come true! Bar cookies are a favorite and this one is hard to top with all those wonderful flavors and I love the colors!! Pinned. Take care.
I couldn’t resist adding the holiday colors! Thanks, friend! 🙂
True confession time, I haven’t even heard of a Hello Dolly bar before! So, I’m happy I stumbled across your recipe! I can’t wait to give these a try!
They’re a classic! Enjoy!!
These are one of my very favorite bar cookies. (Anything with sweetened condensed milk is one of my favorite things.). I love the addition of red and green chips! Or as I’m going to call them from now on, elf hats :). Have a great weekend, Annie!
They’re a cookie to love! Thanks, friend!
So festive, Annie! I don’t know whether to stare out them or eat them – crazy thing, right? Duh….you know I’m gonna eat them, lol. Pinning! P.S. Question for ya – do you think Santa would mind if I kept these for myself ;)???
Eat them! Always!! I don’t think he’d mind at all! Go for it! 😉 🙂
OMG, these are so festive and cute, Annie!!! I’ve never had a Hello Dolly before, and clearly I’m missing out! I’m a sucker for anything with layer upon layer of deliciousness, so I need to get on this STAT! These look just heavenly, my dear! Pinned! Cheers! XO
It’s a happy little cookie, any way you slice it! 😉 🙂 Thanks, dear! XO
Loving this festive twist on classic Hello Dolly Bars! So pretty 🙂 Love all the great flavours and colours.
One of my all-time favorites! Thanks, Jennifer!