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Marshall Field's Seven-Layer Chocolate Bars

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Makes 2, 11 x 17 pans
Ingredients
  • 2 cups butter
  • 6 cups crushed chocolate cookies (original recipe called for Hydrox; Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers worked well for me)
  • 6 cups flaked sweetened coconut
  • 6 cups chopped toasted walnuts
  • 4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 4 cans sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350. In oven, melt 1 cup butter in each pan. Remove pans.
  2. Pour 3 cups of chocolate crumbs into each pan and stir. Spread evenly, pressing down to make crust.
  3. Sprinkle 3 cups coconut, 3 cups nuts, 2 cups chocolate chips over each crust. Drizzle with condensed milk. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool in pan. Cut into bars.

We didn't have many sweets around the house when I was growing up. Mom used to bring home bargain scoops from Goldblatt's “broken cookie” bins which we loved to pick through for the what'd-you-get? fun of it. On errands, Dad would get us penny MaryJanes from a stationers on Chicago near Damen, and, he kept a stash of Marshall Field's Frango mints hidden in an upper cabinet. But chocolate-and-coconut anything was truly his favorite. These easy-to-make Seven-Layer Bars (Does anyone know why they're called that? I only count six ingredients....) are all about that unbeatable combo.

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