• Contact Me
  • Press & Media
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Marnely
  • Work with Me

Cooking with Books

  • Home
  • All Recipes
  • Travel
  • Martha’s Vineyard
  • #BeautyForFoodies
  • Contact Me
You are here: Home / Desserts / Brown Sugar Coconut Chocolate Bars

Bar Treats Desserts Recipes

Brown Sugar Coconut Chocolate Bars

Brown sugar coconut chocolate bars are rich, sweet, gooey goodness from top to bottom. Perfect for dessert or a sweet treat any time.

As a baker, you can lure friends with treats. You can bake and have someone fall in love with the smell drifting from the oven. Better yet, you can barter with your treats! On Martha’s Vineyard, we’ve formed communities. Online Facebook communities to help summer people get housing, groups for selling and buying, groups for sharing daily photos of the Vineyard. How does this come into play with these delicious bars? Let’s just say I bought a chair and bartered to have it delivered in exchange of these treats (and some extra marshmallows!)

These brown sugar coconut chocolate bars are from Easy Does It: Winners & Favorites by Patti Roper.  It’s a cookbook filled with traditional Southern recipes like Pimento Cheese, Creole Catfish, Peach Muffins, and these Brown sugar bars. Simple ingredients that should always be in your baking cabinet, make these treats a delight to share with friends!

Brown Sugar Coconut Chocolate Bars - A Rich, sweet, gooey dessert or anytime sweet treat! Recipe from CookingWithBooks.net

Here’s the recipe for the brown sugar coconut chocolate bars.

If you make them, please come back to leave a comment. I’d love to hear what you think of the recipe!

Save Print
Brown Sugar Coconut Chocolate Bars
Author: Marnely Murray
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Bars
Prep time:  10 mins
Cook time:  30 mins
Total time:  40 mins
Serves: 9
 
Adapted from Easy Does It: Winners and Favorites by Patti Roper Published by Quail Ridge Press
Ingredients
  • ⅔ cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups packed brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 1 cup shredded, sweetened coconut
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips and coconut. (These were mixed by hand with a dough whisk!)
  2. Press half the dough into greased, and foil covered pan (this one is 8 by 8 inches).
  3. Sprinkle mini chocolate chips. Roll the other half of the dough to fit on top and press down.
  4. Sprinkle with shredded coconut.
  5. Bake 30 minutes, until coconut is toasted and bar is fully baked. Cool for an hour or overnight for clean cuts.
Notes
*This recipe could yield 18 bars if made in a larger pan! The smaller the pan, the bars result thicker than expected, allowing you to layer the chocolate and coconut, creating a chewy and rich bar!
3.5.3208

 

Brown Sugar Coconut Chocolate Bars - A Rich, sweet, gooey dessert or anytime sweet treat! Recipe from CookingWithBooks.net

What would be three ingredients in YOUR dream treat bar?


27 Comments

« Hazelnut Molten Lava Cakes
All Quinoa: Pasta and Polenta »

Comments

  1. Stephanie says

    July 5, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Loving this combination! Thanks.

    Reply
  2. Vanessa @FrenchFoodieMom says

    June 21, 2012 at 2:58 am

    These look insanely good. I am pinning them to my must make soon board!

    Reply
  3. Vicky says

    May 14, 2012 at 4:57 am

    Hello
    Thanks for the Brown Sugar, Coconut & Chocolate Bars recipe.
    I’ll create one for sure, my kids are gonna like it 🙂
    If you don’t mind, can I submit your Brown Sugar, Coconut & Chocolate Bars photo in http://www.foodporn.net ?
    It’s a food photography site full of all DIY food pictures from members around the world. Or perhaps you’d like to submit by yourself? Let me know when you did, so I can share it.

    Reply
  4. Susan says

    March 24, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    These have 2 of my favorites, coconut and dark chocolate. I would add almonds or walnuts if I am being good. Or, I would add marshmallows if I am being bad. 😉 I can’t wait to bake these (modified to be gluten-free of course). Thank you for sharing this scrumptious recipe with all of us.
    Susan
    Gluten-Free & Good4U
    Scottsdale, AZ

    Reply
  5. Guru Uru says

    March 19, 2012 at 6:31 am

    I have fallen in love – what stunning ingredient combos 😀

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru
    http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/

    Reply
  6. Anonymous says

    March 15, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    me encantaria preparar este postre. chocolate y coco,rica combinacion. tu mami

    Reply
  7. vanilla bean blog says

    March 15, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    These look so.good. I love gooey, chocolate bars. My dream bar would have some coffee in it as well. 🙂

    Reply
  8. Baker Street says

    March 13, 2012 at 6:41 am

    Woah! I love coconut and chocolate in my bars! These look divine Nelly! 🙂

    Reply
  9. Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious says

    March 12, 2012 at 5:54 am

    Wow, these bars are PACKED with all sorts of good stuff. Can’t wait to try this!

    Reply
  10. Terra says

    March 12, 2012 at 4:19 am

    I freaking love this recipe!!!! I know I will be making it soon, OH MY WORD:-) Hugs, Terra

    Reply
  11. Maris says

    March 11, 2012 at 3:08 am

    YUM. I would love to eat anything you baked but these sound especially yummy.

    Reply
  12. Close to Home says

    March 10, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Look amazing better than magic bars from the 80s

    Reply
  13. @Mango_Queen says

    March 10, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Oh my sweet freaking god! This looks absolutely sooooooooooo good! I’m going to make this right away! Thanks for sharing the recipe. Lovvvvvveeeee this!

    Reply
  14. Barbara | Creative Culinary says

    March 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Yummmm; not even out of bed yet and wish these were waiting for me downstairs. Just a great combination of ingredients.

    So, if I had my perfect three. Well…brown sugar, booze and bacon? 🙂

    I so love the notion of bartering; there is a swap group in Denver…you go taking your goods and barter with other vendors for theirs. I took wood butter and got cookies, biscotti, lavender bitters, granola and more. It is fun!

    Reply
  15. Junia says

    March 10, 2012 at 5:27 am

    and i think bartering is so neat. that’s like what they did back in the colonial days in america!!!

    Reply
  16. Junia says

    March 10, 2012 at 5:26 am

    my dream bar would be banana, chocolate, and peanut butter together. hehehe. i’ve never made a layered bar before! okay, press cookie dough in, layer with chocolate, and then layer with more cookie dough. got it!

    Reply
  17. Maureen says

    March 10, 2012 at 4:02 am

    oh baby, you made these just for me, didn’t you? You knew I was craving chocolate and coconut? LOL it wasn’t me – it was the mister. I’ll make these this afternoon and tell him they were from you. 🙂

    Reply
  18. Anonymous says

    March 10, 2012 at 3:10 am

    those look so good. i want some NOW. would unsweetened coconut and regular size chocolate chips work? that is what is currently in my cabinets …

    Reply
    • Marnely Rodriguez-Murray says

      March 10, 2012 at 3:12 am

      Yes, those would work as well!

      Reply
  19. Karen says

    March 10, 2012 at 2:05 am

    Oh yum! I saw the name of the recipe on Twitter and knew I had to check this out. I can imagine you could get a lot done with these treats as payment!

    Reply
  20. Queentob says

    March 10, 2012 at 2:03 am

    I have died and gone to snack heaven. I have all the ingridients! Yummy here I come!

    Reply
  21. Katie says

    March 10, 2012 at 1:19 am

    Somehow, somehow horrible, I’m out of brown sugar, coconut and chocolate! Ah! I will have to get some next time I go to the store.

    Reply
  22. Miss @ Miss in the Kitchen says

    March 9, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Those look so rich! I think I could eat the whole pan by myself!

    Reply
  23. amy @ fearless homemaker says

    March 9, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    these sound awesome + look absolutely delicious – yum!

    Reply
  24. Patti Wunder says

    March 9, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Need. These. Now.
    Yum!

    Reply
  25. Georgia | The Comfort of Cooking says

    March 9, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    Oh my goodness do those bars look good! These would, without a doubt, be my dream bar. No contest here!

    Reply
  26. Michelle Jaffee says

    March 9, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    I’ll take one with my coffee!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Rate this recipe:  

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Twitter

Get free recipes sent to your email, CLICK HERE.

About MeWelcome to Cooking with Books, where we'll discover the joy of cooking, eating, and traveling together! More about Marnely...

Popular Posts

Recipes by Date

Recent Comments

  • Bren on I Don’t Want Kids – and What I Did About It!
  • Gina on I Don’t Want Kids – and What I Did About It!
  • April Blake on I Don’t Want Kids – and What I Did About It!
  • Jen on I Don’t Want Kids – and What I Did About It!
  • Kelli on I Don’t Want Kids – and What I Did About It!
This classic Caribbean eggnog is packed with spiced rum and brandy, and comes for my Mom, who has been making this recipe for almost a decade!

Ponche Navideño (Dominican Eggnog)

Virtual Viewing Party: Apple Pie Shortcakes

Cranberry Cardamom Shortbread Cookies recipe

Cranberry Cardamom Shortbread Cookies

Celebrate Festivus with Apple Pie

Pumpkin Chamomile Coconut Ice Cream 04

Pumpkin Chamomile Coconut “Ice Cream”

Copyright © 2021 · Divine theme by Restored 316

Copyright © 2021 · Divine Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in