Cindy Kimmel Cookies

I want to start this post with a disclaimer: Cindy Kimmel, if somehow you read this, I'm sorry if the recipe is a little bit off, as I don't actually know who you are.

The story goes like this...

Each year my boyfriend's mama bakes Christmas cookies. I joined her and their family on the Christmas cookie baking day this year, and we made 22 dozen cookies. It is a fun tradition. The gals cook up sugar cookies and gingerbread and snicker doodle cookies, and the guys decorate the outside of the house. Then when all the cookies are cooled we sat at the table and iced them. It was, like I said, a great time. At the end of the day we had dinner and discussed the 22 dozen cookies we whipped up.

That is when I first heard of Cindy Kimmel cookies. After going over all the different kinds, my boyfriend, his brother and father all mentioned how they wished us gals would have made some "Cindy Kimmels." After a back and forth for a bit I chimed in and asked, "Uh, what is a Cindy Kimmel?"

They all were a little surprised I didn't know until they realized that "Cindy Kimmel" is actually just the lady who gave my boyfriend's mom the recipe. The cookie has a name, unknown to any of them because they always referred to them as "Cindy Kimmels."

So after the guys complained about not having these particular cookies, my boyfriend and I decided we would make them and he could take them when he came back for Christmas weekend as a nice little surprise.

We struggled with how to find the recipe since we didn't know the exact name, but after googling the ingredients, we found it.

And so we made them last Thursday night. I had gone to the store earlier in the week and bought all the goods. When we decided to start cooking I realized I had not printed the recipe. So while I was getting my computer out to look it up, my boyfriend was in the kitchen looking at the sweets. That's when he realized the exact recipe was on the back of the butterscotch chips, which is one of the ingredients. RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM. The recipe we found on line was called Magic Bars, on the back of the butterscotch it was "7 Layer Bars." Either way they were Cindy Kimmels.

Here is the recipe!

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1 cup butterscotch chips

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

1 1/3 cups shredded coconut

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

1. Place butter in 13 x 9 inch pan and melt in oven. Swirl to coat bottom and sides with butter.
2. Spread crumbs evenly over bottom of pan. Layer chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and nuts over crumbs. Pour condensed milk over nuts. Sprinkle coconut over condensed milk.
3. Bake until edges are golden brown, about 25 minutes. Let cool.

Ok so we decided to mix everything (the butterscotch, chocolate chips, coconut, and nuts) pour it all over the crumbs, then pour the milk, then bake.

They were delicious. They are a little sticky, thus hard to get out of the pan in perfect little squares, but we managed and they were yummy.

Now when the boyfriend took them home, he wanted to wait until Christmas Eve night to share them. So we wrapped them up like a fun present so he could put them under their tree. he did, but his mama went investigating and discovered them. They all had a good laugh that we went ahead and made them, so despite the other 22 dozen they could have their favorite Christmas time cookie!

But I will say too that there is nothing particularly Christmas about them, so feel free to make them anytime!

xoxo Sara Marie