Yesterday was my first gluten-free Christmas, and my sweet mama made it special for me by adapting my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. Isn’t she the best?? So here’s my Christmas present to y’all: the recipe! Even if you don’t need to be gluten-free, you will ADORE these Hello Dollies. Warning: non-professional iPhone photos ahead.
This recipe has been in the family for multiple generations. Others make similar variations called seven layer bars, but I think “Hello Dollies” is much more festive, don’t you? When I think of Christmas, I taste the buttery, chocolatey, butterscoth-y flavor of these Dollies melting in my mouth. So. Darn. Good.
Gluten-Free Hello Dollies
Ingredients:
1/2 stick butter 1 cup gluten-free graham cracker crumbs 1 cup shredded coconut 6 oz chocolate chips (make sure they are gluten-free…some chocolate chips contain barley malt) 6 oz butterscotch chips (make sure they are gluten-free…some chips have “artificial flavoring” that is not GF) 1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 cups pecans, finely chopped