Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

about

I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Not Seven

September 20, 2011

But Six. Six Layer Bars. Because nuts ruin good desserts. Just ask me. Or my dad. In other words, experts agree that nuts are lame.

Need a sugar fix with an added health benefit of some coconut? Give yourself ten minutes and wallah!

Yes, I said it: "health benefit of coconut" and "wallah." Take that.

Six (or Seven) Layer Bars

Ingredients:

– stick of butter

– sleeve of graham crackers

– chocolate chips

– butterscotch chips

– can of sweetened condensed milk

– coconut

– walnuts if you're lame. Or if you like nuts. Same thing.

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Put your stick o' butter in a 13" x 9" pan and throw that in the oven until the butter melts. Once it has melted, take it out of the oven. Layer 1: complete. You know it's good if the first of six layers is butter.

Smash your sleeve of graham crackers into little bits. In other words, crush them. Sprinkle your graham crumbs over the melty butter. Smoosh the crumbs down with a spatula to even out the layer. Layer 2: complete.