The other day, my husband asked me, “How long do you think it would take you to make all of the recipes that you have torn out and bookmarked?” He was referring to my addiction. Whenever I want to buy another cookbook, my mom says, “Why would you want to buy another cookbook when you have every recipe you could want at your fingertips online?” The first step to healing is to admit that you have a problem, right? Well sweetsies, here goes. Hi I’m Mercedes and I am addicted to cookbooks, cooking magazines, cooking blogs, and really any thing associated with recipes. The biggest problem is, I don’t want to get better. When my magazines come in the mail every month or a new cookbook arrives at my door, I am like a little girl that has just received a puppy.
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I can’t wait to scour the pages and dogear or place a post-it tag onto the recipes that I want to try. And then there are all of the talented bakers on the blogosphere. You should see my “Recipes” folder in my email. It’s slightly ridiculous (in a good way of course).
Last week I decided that it was time to make a dent in that folder. When I saw this recipe from Allie, my mouth immediately started to water and I could not wait for an excuse to make these bars. Coconut and chocolate is one of my favorite combinations and with the beautiful fall colored M&M’s in the store candy aisles, I couldn’t wait to make these ooey gooey bars.
Coconut M&M Cookie Bars
Keywords: bake dessert chocolate coconut bar cookie
Ingredients
- 10 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 1/2 cups M&M’s
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 9X13 glass pan.
Melt butter in medium saucepan, remove from heat and let cool slightly.
In a large bowl and using an electric mixer, cream together melted butter and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla and salt and beat until combined. Blend in flour. Finally, mix in coconut and M&M’s.
Pour into prepared pan and bake 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges.
Cool completely before cutting and serving.
melt butter
cream together melted butter and sugars
add eggs, vanilla and salt
add flour, coconut and M&M’s
pour battre into prepared pan
bake until golden brown
15 Comments
i like so much your blog, your recipies …
Thank you for reading Maria and for the nice compliment!
Your post this morning was especially fun with the picture of puppies!
These bars look delicious….. I made the pad thai this weekend- it was delish, now maybe I can start baking this weekend?! there are too many of your recipes to choose from though!
I’m so glad that the Pad Thai turned out well Anna! And glad you liked the puppies
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If lovin’ recipes is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right! Lovely post – nice to hear I’m not alone in my… addiction.
I love hearing about other addicts, it makes me feel so normal! And thank you for the nice comment and for reading!
I am also addicted!!! (As you know!)
But that all depends on if you need a hard copy or not. 
PS. I just learned that you can buy them on the ipad and no one will know.
Ooooh, that is a good sneaky trick to buy them on the iPad!
Hi Mercedes, you are just like my mom.. she’s so in love with cooking. I think you two need to hang out together
The puppies look adorable and the cookie bars… Yummy!!
Thank you Ali! Do you like to cook or just eat your mom’s creations
? Thanks for reading!
i prefer just eating cause I know I can’t make a delish like she does
I love your blog by the way 
Just found your blog and I LOVE it! You’re so talented at photography and baking!
Thank you so much for the nice compliment Anna! I’m glad you are enjoying my blog!
I have bags full of unsweetned coconut. Would that work in this recipe? They look really good!!
Yes I think it would be great! I hope you make the bars and enjoy them!