Easter Magic Cookie Bars come together quickly with a buttery graham cracker crust topped with layers of chewy crunchy sweet treats. This Easter dessert is easy to whip up and you can even let the kids help.

A Magic Cookie Bar recipe is one you need to print and hang onto for any holiday season. You can easily adapt for special occasions or holidays. See how pretty these Christmas Magic Cookie Bars are too.

There should be goodies to enjoy in anticipation of the arrival of Easter Sunday and this Easter dessert recipe is easy and comes together quickly. Let the kids help add the layers.

Ingredients for Magic Cookie Bars

Magic Cookie Bars are generally a seven-layer bar cookie dessert. Coconut is optional because some folks don’t care for it.

• ½ Cup Unsalted Butter
• 1½ Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 1 Can (14 oz.) Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 Pkg. 12 oz. White Chocolate Morsels
• 1 Pkg. 12 oz. Peanut Butter Morsels
• 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
• 1 Cup Easter candy-coated chocolate (M&M’s)
• 1 cup coconut flakes, optional

M&M’s

It’s the pretty colors of the M&M’s in these cookie bars that create excitement and make them match the holiday. Use candies in any color to match your occasion. Save yourself the hassle of driving all over town looking for M&M’s in the colors you need and don’t pay those party store prices. You can get them on Amazon right here in any color.

You can substitute Cadbury Mini eggs if you like. They are just as pretty in pastel colors and perfect for an Easter dessert.

Flavored Morsel Chips

My recipe for Easter Magic Bars uses peanut butter chips and white chocolate chips. You can substitute milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, butterscotch chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips if you like.

Nuts

This recipe uses chopped pecans. You can substitute walnuts if you like.

Coconut

The coconut flakes are optional. They don’t make or break the flavor of these seven-layer bars. Some folks do not care for coconut which is why it is optional. Coconut is a common addition to some Easter dessert recipes.

Directions

Use an 11×6 baking dish for a thinner bar cookie or a 10×6 for a thicker bar cookie.

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350° (325° for glass baking dish). Prepare your baking dish by spraying it with non-stick cooking spray.

Step 2 Make the Crust

Place the butter in the baking dish and melt in the preheated oven. Keep an eye on it, this doesn’t take long.

Carefully remove the baking dish with melted butter from the oven and sit it in your workspace. Pour the Graham Cracker Crumbs evenly over the melted butter. Using the back of a spatula, press the crumbs down well into the butter and let it all soak up together.

Step 3 Add the Layers

Now pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top of the crust and then sprinkle the Peanut Butter Chips evenly across the top of the condensed milk.

You can use the back of a spoon or your spatula to help spread the sweetened condensed milk across the crust.

Fun fact, these bar cookies were originally called Hello Dollies back in the 1950’s.

Step 4 Add chocolate chips and pecans

Now add the white chocolate chips evenly on top of the peanut butter chips. This delectable bar cookie is coming together nicely.

Sprinkle the chopped pecans on top now.

My Hint for chopping pecans is that I break them all up by hand one by one. It doesn’t take as long as it seems. The reason I do this is to avoid those tiny little pieces that can get stuck in your teeth.

Step 5 Add M&M’s

The last layer on your 7-Layer Easter Magic Cookie Bars is those pretty pastel M&M’s. After covering the surface evenly with the M&M candies, press down gently using the back of a spatula.

Bake for approximately 25 to 30 minutes. The peanut butter chips and white chocolate chips should be melted when these bar cookies are done.

Allow to cool completely before cutting into small squares to serve. It is painful to wait for these delights to cool but necessary.

Printable Recipe card below

These are the Ultimate Cookie Bars for Easter because we blended melted peanut butter chips with white chocolate chips for that peanut butter and chocolate flavor we all love. Oh yes, you can trade the white chocolate chips for milk chocolate if you insist. I am a big fan of white chocolate and think they make this Easter dessert look more ‘Eastery’.

These Easter Magic Cookie Bars with peanut butter chips and white chocolate chips come together quickly. Everyone loves them and they yield quite a few depending on how big you cut the squares. Originally called Hello Dolly Bars a very long time ago, like in the 1950s, these bar cookies have evolved over time with more variety and color in the ingredients.

Store Leftovers

Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to five days. Allow your dessert bars to come to room temperature before eating.

You can make this Easter dessert a day in advance and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Allow to come to room temperature before serving. These dessert bars are great to take to a potluck.

More Ways To Celebrate Easter

• Set an Easter Kids Table like this one with lots of fun and whimsical touches they will enjoy.
• 21 Easter Coloring Pages, free to print.
• Make these cute and whimsical Easter Egg Cups with Dollar Tree supplies to use on the Kids Easter Table.
• 15 Family Easter Traditions to start this year.
• Make Pastel Rainbow Deviled Eggs for a little Easter food fun. Everyone wants to eat these pretty eggs. Recipe included for Southern Deviled Eggs.
• DIY these Easter Bunny popping out of the grass Flower Pails for tabletop Easter Decor. They are a Dollar Tree craft that look expensive.
• Easter Sunday is always a busy day. Cook your Easter Ham in the Crockpot using this easy recipe for Brown Sugar & Pineapple Glazed Ham.
• Make Your Own Blue & White Moss Ball Mini Topiary tabletop decor. It’s an elegant looking Dollar Tree craft.
• Hang a fresh new Spring colors wreath on your front door like this DIY Monogram Spring Watering Can Wreath Another elegant Dollar Tree DIY.