Hello Dolly Bars are so easy to make gluten free and nut free! The perfect crowd pleasing dessert!
This is a fun dessert. It’s so easy to make. Almost too easy! (For my waistline I mean). I actually made this batch without even dirtying a bowl. I combined the cookie crumbs and the butter in a freezer Ziplock bag. After I had squeezed it out into the baking pan, I just sprinkled the chocolate chips and coconut on top and poured on the sweetened condensed milk and baked it. I made the crumbs in a personal sized blender, but you could easily make them just by crumbling cookies with your hands or rolling a bag full of cookies with a clean rolling pin. I used Kinnikinnick S’moreables for my crumbs because they’re both gluten and nut free.
This would actually make a neat gift for a gluten free friend if you packaged up the ingredients inside a parchment lined baking pan. It would also be a fun pre-assembled baking activity for visiting grandkids.
Package up the ingredients in a parchment lined baking dish as a gift for a gluten free friend or a pre-measured baking activity with the kids.
Gluten Free, Nut Free Hello Dolly Bars
This is one of those recipes that looks like it takes a lot of time to make, but only takes about 5 minutes to put together.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups gluten free nut free cookie crumbs
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 1 can 15oz can sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Combine crumbs and butter.
- Press mixture into the bottom of a parchment lined 8x8" square or 9" round cake pan to form a crust.
- Sprinkle crust evenly with chocolate chips.
- Sprinkle coconut evenly over chocolate chips.
- Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over coconut.
- DO NOT STIR.
- Place pan in oven at 400F and bake for 20-30 minutes until the top is lightly browned.
- Let cool completely and refrigerate to firm up before cutting.
Another, super easy, 4 ingredient Hello Dolly Bar. Made with a gluten free Oreo crust.
Another easy recipe: Gluten Free Sprinkledoodles made with Gluten Free Bisquick.
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Another chocolate favorite made gluten free! Gluten Free Nanaimo Bars.
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Cool! I’d never heard of hello dolly bars before this, but now I’m keen to give them a go! :3
They’re also called “magic bars” and “seven layer bars” (not sure why 7 layers, one of the seven layers is nuts, but I still only count 5 total. 🙂
Let me know if you like them!
I made these with Ghirardelli chips and Enjoy Life’s Crunch Sugar Cookies for the crust and it was amazing! Definitely the favorite this year and I’ll no doubt be making them again and again.
These look delicious but is there any substitute for coconut? Our daughter has the nut allergy and we’ve been told to avoid coconut as well ;(
Hey Brenda, let me think about that and get back to you.
If anyone else has a suggestion, feel free to jump in here
Literally just made these and took my first bite! I am in heaven the ratio of all the ingredients is perfect! So happy right now! I will be recommending this to all gluten free-ers! It is so nice when we can actually eat something that is soooo good it makes you forget it’s gluten free!
Awesome! So glad you liked it!