Coconut Chocolate Bars
I come from a long line of coconut lovers in my family…on both sides of my family actually. I must have missed the memo, because coconut can be hard for me to swallow sometimes, literally. I don’t know if its the texture, the shape… who really knows, alls I’m saying is- different strokes for different folks.
That being said, you add sweetened condensed milk and chocolate to coconut and suddenly coconut and I are best friends. Its a strange relationship we have. These Coconut Bars have been in my family since I can remember. They are in my grandma’s cookbook she gives all the grandkids. I made these for a family down the street and had to get them out of my house. After my third one it was time for them to go and taunt someone else ;-)
Coconut Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix dry
- 1/3 cup butter softened to room temperature
- 1 egg large
- 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened coconut divided
- 1 cup pecans chopped
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, butter and slightly beaten egg. Mix until crumbly but crumbs stick together.
- Press batter on the bottom of a ungreased 9x13 baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, egg and vanilla. Beat for 3 minutes.
- After beating sweetened condensed mixture, stir in 1 cup coconut, chopped pecans and chocolate chips until evenly mixed.
- Spread evenly over cake mixture.
- Sprinkle the top with remaining 1/2 cup of coconut.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes on center rack of oven.
- When done, remove pan from oven and allow to cool completely before cutting.
Nutrition
Enjoy!
If you like these, then you will LOVE:
Coconut Macaroons
Almond Joy Kiss Cookies
Coconut Cream Cake
German Chocolate Brownies
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Sweetened condensed milk can do no wrong! Same with chocolate and coconut. Awesomeness :)
Lisa
Could you please consider adding a print button to this recipe?
Chef in Training
Hi Lisa, there is one now :) I plug the recipe into the recipe card when I schedule it, but for some reason when it actually publishes, the recipe card doesn't show up until I manually click it. Sorry about that, but you can print it now :)
Kimberley
I'm a coco-NUT!! I love it and will eat it straight from the bag!! Not to mention I love coconut milk, coconut oil, AND coconut RUM!! This looks delish......adding it to my collection right now :)
Kate
These sound like just a bit of heaven...I got the coconut memo and know I would love each and every bite!
Carol
Coconut and chocolate...my kryptonite. Pinning!
Leslie
I have been looking for something to make for my mom for Mother's Day (she loves coconut) and I think this might be it! Thanks for the recipe.
diana
I absolutely love love LOVE your blog!!! I will be trying this recipe. Thanks for sharing!!
Diana @decoratemediana
Carly
Love these, making them soon!!! Great picture!
Jeni {Bakerette.com}
You had me at chocolate! LOL. These look absolutely delicious Nikki! It was also great meeting you at SNAP.
Connie
Sounds wonderful, but my question is, how do you remove it from the pan when it's just out of the oven? This doesn't look like something you can flip over like you can cakes.
Chef in Training
Sorry for the confusion. It just says to remove pan from oven. You let the bars cool in the pan and then cut when they are cooled. They are like brownies so don't try and remove them from the pan. Again so sorry about the confusion in that step.
Lynn H @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
We love coconut in my house too and we are going to devour these yummy brownies! Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
Gloria @ Simply Gloria
My hubs will love these...almost reminds me of part of the German Chocolate family! Delish!
Joan
Oh yum! Love cake mix recipes and look forward to trying the bars.
Rita Torneten
Only one egg listed on ingredient list, however instructions say add egg to the cake mix (step 1) and then again in step 2.. Could you clarify instructions? Thanks!
Chef in Training
There are two different eggs listed in in the ingredients. The third ingredient and the fifth ingredient. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions, I am happy to help :)
Anja
I made these today and at first crumbling the cake with butter I felt like this must be wrong somehow but fallowed the recipe anyway and OMG these are the best I ever made my boys all love them and even tho I am not a brownie fan but coconut fan I made them anyway ... Love your site and this recipe !
Veronica
Used milk chocolate chips and finished our walnuts and pecans (about a 1/2 cup in total; it needed the whole cup). Cooked it 28 minutes, but probably should have taken it out at 25 minutes. It was really good warm and just good cool. While mixing, the crust never did get crumbly and stick together well, but after cooking it did hold together well. Next time I will use a butter chocolate cake mix, the devils food was just a tad too dark for me.
Joann
looks delicious !!! My family loves chocolate, must try this!!
faith
Do the Chocolate Coconut Bars need refrigerated?
becky
Tho recipe cslls for 1 egg...both the cake mix and condensed milk call for 1 egg each. so I used the 2 eggs...this is cooling right now, looks yum, cant wait to taste it!
Chef in Training
sorry about that and good catch. It is fixed and updated now.
Debbie Gabe
Where is the print button? I would like to make these.
Chef in Training
Hey Debbie, sorry my sight had an issue with the print button that should be fixed. Please let me know if you run into any other trouble.
Susan Adkins
Hi there! I’d like to make these but I can’t see the beginning of the recipe near the butter required as there is an ad for CAT equipment company. Would be grateful if you could email me the few ingredients listed in the beginning. Best, Susan
Chef in Training
Sorry about the trouble. I am working on updating my recipes in a new format so its not so confusing. I just updated this one. For any other recipes you come across in the old format, the ad isn’t actually covering any ingredients up. It just pushes down the ingredient list but the first bullet point stays in its initial spot so it makes it look like it is. It is confusing which is why I am updating them to eliminate that. Sorry for that inconvenience. This updated format should fix the issue you were having. Please let me know if its not or if you have any other questions.