Friday, June 10, 2011

Mounds Bar

Ingredients

* 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
* 1/2 brown sugar, firmly packed
* 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
* 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
* 2 cups flaked coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
* 1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips, melted
* 1 tsp baking soda

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F .
2. Combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter. Mix and pat into the bottom of one 9x13 inch baking pan. Bake at 325 degrees F for 15 minutes. (Bake at 350 F if you want a hard graham crust. I prefer baking to 325 F). Remove from the oven
3. Wait for 20 minutes until the graham crust is less hot, sprinkle flaked coconut and then pour condensed milk evenly over the graham cracker crust + flaked coconut.
4. Bake 15 minutes @ 325 F. Remove from the oven and let cool.
5. In a double boiler, melt chocolate chips. Semisweet chocolate chips is preferable since it evens out the sweetness of the graham crust and the condensed milk. (Use milk chocolate otherwise).
6. Spread the melted chocolate chips over the top. Let cool and cut into squares once the crust + condensed milk + chocolate achieves a harder consistency.