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Melting chocolate, chewy coconut, and crunchy nuts are layered over a buttery graham cracker crust to make these Hello Dolly Bars.
My kids and husband devoured these bars lightning fast. Luckily, they’re very easy to make as I suspect they’re going to be popular in our home for a lot of years to come.
Like the Chocolate Revel Bars, Monster Cookie Bars, and Gingerbread Bars, the Hello Dolly Bars freeze beautifully and are great choices for make-ahead holiday baking.
Coconut lovers can’t resist fudgy brownies filled with sweet chewy coconut and melting chocolate chips, that is a combination that I can never resist. Crustless Coconut Pie is a simple custard pie filled to the brim with sweet bites of coconut.
Salty sweet graham cracker toffee is perfect for snacking on its own or crumbling over ice cream.
Hello Dolly Bars
Have you heard of Hello Dolly Bars? When I spied that name, I simply had to try the recipe. This dessert is another recipe success from my beloved stack of Amish cookbooks.
I don’t know just why it brings me so much joy to bake from vintage cookbooks, but it really is fun!
These bars are also known as Magic Cookie Bars. While often confused with 7 layer bars (count the layers, there are six layers here, not seven) those bars usually include a handful or two of chocolate M&M candies as well.
Hello Dollies
You’ll need the following ingredients to make this recipe:
- butter or margarine
- graham cracker crumbs
- sweetened flaked coconut
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
- chopped pecans or walnuts
- sweetened condensed milk
Hello Dolly Bars Recipe
Begin by melting the butter in a 9-inch square pan.
Layer in graham cracker crumbs, coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts. Pour condensed milk over the top.
Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. Cool completely before cutting into squares.
If you’re a fan of vintage desserts, you’ll want to try the Gooey Butter Cake – and the Gooey Chocolate Butter Cake too.
My family’s Old Fashioned Rhubarb Pie is a classic recipe that we make at least once every summer.
The Overnight Coffee Cake is another Amish recipe favorite along with these Amish Sugar Cookies.
And for an unexpected treat, try these Snickers Stuffed Amish Peanut Butter Cookies. (Yes, the Amish eat candy bars.) They are a huge success any time they’re made.
Hello Dolly Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs, finely crushed about 7 full graham crackers
- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a 9-inch square pan. Layer in graham cracker crumbs, coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts. Pour milk over the top.
- Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
{originally published 11/16/21 – recipe notes and photos updated 2/25/25}
Sounds great all recipes want to try all of them.
Can I freeze these?
Yes, they will freeze nicely!
I don’t like coconut or chocolate what morsel chips can I replace for chocolate chips and what can I replace for the coconut
You could swap butterscotch chips for the chocolate, if that appeals to you. You can also skip the coconut and/or add additional nuts, if you’d like.
Can I use a 9 by 13 pan?
For a doubled recipe, yes.
can nuts be left out
Sure, that will work fine.
I just made these and took them out of the oven. Last time I made them, about a month ago, I actually forgot to add the crumbs to the melted butter until I had everything layered. Needless to say I wasn’t happy so just dumped the crumbs on top. But! They still turned out excellent and I’m not crazy about coconut. So made them today and when I took my Graham crackers out of the box I noticed a horrible chemical smell. I discovered they expired two years ago. So dumped both boxes into the garbage but I did have vanilla wafers in my freezer so used them. This time I remembered to mix the crumbs in with the butter before layering the rest of the goodies. Once cool I’ll cut them up and I always share whatever I cook and bake with my husbands elderly brother. These are outstanding bars, delicious and super easy to make.
I’m so glad you like them and thrilled the substitutions worked well too!
These sounded so yummy I decided to try them. Not sure what happened, but after they cooked and cooled I tried to cut them and they fell apart. They were wet too, so not cookie like at all. I baked them as directed for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. I actually put them back together and put them back in the oven for an additional 15 minutes and they are bubbling. Will let them cool again and see what happens.
That’s strange, Tina. I’m guessing an ingredient might have been accidentally measured incorrectly. Did you by any chance substitute anything from the recipe as written?
Same thing happened to me. They are mushy. I didn’t change anything.
This is nice
These look SO delicious! I don’t care for coconut. Has anyone ever left that out, and how was it? I saw someone suggest using rice Krispy in place of the cracker crumbs. Maybe I could use them to replace the coconut? But really, this is the tastiest looking cookie I’ve seen in a long time! Great post!
I have not tried that Jeanine, perhaps others have. . .
Really have to do so