Magic Cookie Bars with Shortbread Crust

If you're a fan of Magic Cookie Bars, this is a buttery gourmet version with a shortbread crust you may just fall in love with.

They're also have other popular names you may know: 7-layer cookies, chocolate coconut cookie bars, or  Hello Dolly bars.

The popular crust from the 1960s is made with graham crackers; I changed it up a bit, making a buttery shortbread crust instead.

The bottom starts with a simple homemade shortbread crust made with butter, brown sugar, vanilla, flour, and a pinch of salt. Once baked, it's layered with sweetened condensed milk, shredded coconut, and a generous combination of dark and milk chocolate chips.

You can make these bars your own by adding chopped pecans, walnuts, pistachios, peanut butter chips, or butterscotch chips.

They're wonderfully adaptable, which makes them perfect for holidays, cookie trays, bake sales, parties, or simply keeping a batch on hand when you want something sweet.

Mom's Baked Butter Burgers

Mom's Baked Butter Burgers are the juiciest and most flavorful burgers around.

They're easy to make and baked to perfection, topped with assorted vegetables, and we have several assembly topping suggestions, from melted provolone and marinara to loose sausage, peppers, and onion topping ideas below.

Back in the 1960s, the budget for food was tight; Mom always added a few other ingredients to make the beef go further, like bread crumbs.

These buttery-tasting burgers were always bursting with the flavor of garlic, onions, Merlot, sautéed mushrooms, and peppers, and occasionally in summer, when Dad had his garden she even added thinly sliced potatoes on the bottom of the pan.

Traditionally served on a hard roll, ciabatta rolls, garlic toast, or even in a grilled panini-style sandwich.

Some other favorites were Big Juicy Merlot Burgers, Garlic Parmesan Burgers, Chili Cheese Dog Topped Burgers, and her delicious Provolone Alfredo Burger.

She only used simple pantry ingredients, easy to make and perfectly seasoned, and of course, Italian-style butter burgers are still a favorite here.

Orange Coconut Butterballs

Orange Coconut Butterball cookies are a melt-in-your-mouth orange delight.

These buttery orange cookies are the kind of old-fashioned cookie that disappears quickly from the cookie tray.

They're rich and tender from plenty of butter, delicately flavored with fresh orange zest, and finished with your choice of sweet coconut flakes or crunchy chopped pecans.

The combination of buttery shortbread, bright orange flavor, and your favorite add-ins makes these cookies perfect for Christmas cookie trays, holiday baking, afternoon coffee, or simply keeping a batch in the cookie jar.

If you're a fan of orange desserts, these cookies are totally adaptable, and the mix-ins we suggest can change this easy recipe to fit your cookie collections.

You may also know these cookies as snowballs, pecan butterballs, Mexican wedding cakes, Mexican tea cakes, Russian teacakes, butterball cookies, pecan sandies, or Viennese sugar butterballs.

Whatever your family names them, they are a delicious, delicate buttery addition to your cookie recipe collection!