A variation on one of Wheel's favorite dessert, Seven Layer Magic Bars, and Bytes favorite dessert, Pumpkin Pie. Magic Pumpkin Spice Bars are a delicious compromise! The pumpkin filling is just right spicy on a base of crushed vanilla wafers and topped with coconut, pecans, crushed toffee and white chocolate. You can crush the vanilla wafers in the food processor. Or put them in a zipper bag and crush them with the rolling pin. Or pull the bag out of the box, cut off one corner to allow air to escape and beat the cookies into crumbs with whatever weighty object is at hand -- a heavy glass or a jar of peanut butter, say. Which method do you think I used?? Yep, peanut butter works well. By the time the butter was melted in the microwave -- about 45 seconds -- crumbs were forming ... [Read More]