½ cup butter
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
½ cup butterscotch chips
½ cup white chocolate chips
1 cup coconut, flaked
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 325˚.
Coat bottom of 9 x 9-inch pan with melted butter.
Spread graham cracker crumbs evenly over butter, and press into bottom of pan. Sprinkle butterscotch and white chocolate chips evenly over top of the graham cracker crumbs. Sprinkle with flaked coconut.
Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over the coconut, and sprinkle chopped walnuts on top. Bake for 30 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting into small squares.
— Recipe by Erica Derr, Greensboro. Our State, December 2000.
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