Magnolia Bars

The Complete Magnolia Bakery cookbook is useful for more than just cupcakes! You may be familiar with the famous NYC cupcake shop that became a household name after Sex and the City, and I've found their cookbook to be full of good ideas. These Chocolate Pecan Bars are delicious and deceptively simple. They look impressive enough to give as a gift or bring to a party, but in reality they take only about an hour to whip up from start to finish (and they don't make much of a mess, which is always a big plus!)

Looks good, yes?

It all starts out with two little ingredients, the cornerstones of this recipe:

Pecans and milk chocolate. A great combination!

Whip up and bake an easy brown sugar shortbread dough:

Drop chocolate chips on top of the hot dough (how easy is that, the hot shortbread melts the chocolate for you!) Sprinkle:

Spread:

Add chopped pecans:

Let cool, cut into bars, and devour promptly!

Here's the recipe. I live for milk chocolate so I subbed it in for the white chocolate.