A Holiday Treat: Something Sweet from Krista Eull

Today we are sharing sweet holiday memories with an even sweeter recipe from Krista Eull. 

"Our family holiday recipe is for homemade “Mounds Bars.”  My big sister, who already had a family of her own in the early ‘90s, started making them and she’s made them EVERY Christmas since. I got the recipe and have followed in her footsteps once I stopped celebrating the holiday with her. For a while, we saw each other every other Christmas, and she would always send us a tin full of her Mounds Bars as part of our gift. She knew that we couldn’t go without them! They disappeared fast. The whole extended family now expects them each and every year. They are greatly loved!"

Krista and her great-niece snowshoeing in Steamboat, Colorado in 2018

Mounds Bars 

Ingredients:

❖ 2 cups graham cracker crumbs

❖ ¼ cup white sugar

❖ ½ cup melted butter

❖ 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

❖ 2 cups shredded coconut

❖ 1 (12-ounce) package of semisweet chocolate chips, melted

Directions:

❖ Preheat the oven to 350℉

❖ Combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter or margarine

❖ Mix and pat into the bottom of one 9x13-inch baking pan

❖ Bake at 350℉ for 15 minutes

❖ Combine the condensed milk and shredded coconut

❖ Spread over the crust and bake at 350℉ for 15 minutes

❖ Spread the melted chocolate chips over the top

❖ Let cool and cut into squares