These comfortable and chewy frosted sugar cookie bars are topped with a thick layer of buttercream frosting (and sprinkles!). Get pleasure from freshly baked sugar cookies with hardly any effort!

Why You’ll Love These Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars

These sugar cookie bars are soft-baked like a chewy chocolate chip cookie and thick like a peanut butter blondie. They style similar to my favourite comfortable frosted sugar cookies, made with a fraction of the hassle! This recipe is:

• Fast. In the event you’re massive on baking however not massive on time, sugar cookie bars are the reply. Have your cookie bars prepared in half-hour or much less, with out chilling or rolling out the dough.
• Gentle and chewy. In the event you love comfortable sugar cookies (just like the Lofthouse cookies of grocery store fame) wait till you style these do-it-yourself frosted sugar cookie bars. Wealthy, buttery, slathered with a thick layer of frosting, they’re fully irresistible.
• Vacation-worthy. Sugar cookie bars are straightforward to brighten for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, you title it. Change up the frosting colour and add some sprinkles! That is one recipe you’ll wish to save for each vacation and event.

Recipe Substances

You can also make the very best chewy sugar cookie bars with simply 8 straightforward substances (plus your alternative of frosting). I’ve included some ingredient notes beneath. Don’t neglect to scroll to the recipe card for the total quantities and recipe directions.

• Sugar – Basic sugar cookies name for good ol’ granulated white sugar.
• Butter – Salted or unsalted, delivered to room temperature.
• Cream Cheese – Additionally at room temperature. I like to recommend utilizing blocks of cream cheese fairly than the spreadable form.
• Egg
• Vanilla – For the very best taste, follow actual vanilla extract (versus imitation vanilla).
• Flour
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda
• Frosting – I frost these bars with my favourite do-it-yourself buttercream frosting and prime them with rainbow sprinkles.

Learn how to Make Sugar Cookie Bars

Thick and scrumptious cookie bars are enjoyable and festive sufficient to make for the vacations, and straightforward sufficient to make every time a yearning for comfortable and buttery sugar cookies hits. Have your cookie bars baked and frosted in just some fast steps:

• Mix the dough substances. Cream collectively butter, sugar, and cream cheese, adopted by the egg and vanilla. Subsequent, slowly add your dry substances and blend till mixed.

• Fill the pan. Press the sugar cookie dough right into a foil-lined jelly roll pan.
• Bake. Bake the cookie bars at 350ºF for 20 minutes, simply till the perimeters are a little bit golden. Let the bars cool fully earlier than frosting and adorning.

Learn how to Beautify Sugar Cookie Bars

Prime your bars along with your alternative of traditional buttercream, chocolate frosting, or any sort of frosting you’d like! This creamy brown sugar frosting and heritage frosting are additionally scrumptious. Or, you’ll be able to attempt my mint chocolate chip frosting or this funfetti celebration frosting for one thing festive. Frosting and adorning these sugar cookie bars is tremendous straightforward:

• Make the frosting. Whip up a fast batch of your favourite frosting. Be happy to paint the frosting utilizing gel meals dyes.
• Frost the bars. Pile dollops of frosting onto your cookie bars. Use an offset spatula or a knife to unfold the frosting evenly over prime.
• Add sprinkles. End your bars with rainbow sprinkles, chocolate chips, or chocolate shavings.

Suggestions for Success

Identical to conventional sugar cookies, there are just a few key issues that make all of the distinction in the case of baking excellent bars:

• Use room temperature substances. Be certain to take your butter and cream cheese (and even the egg) out of the fridge forward of time. Room-temperature substances mix extra simply with the opposite substances.
• Keep away from overmixing. Combine the dry substances into the moist dough solely till the dough is mixed, and watch out to not overmix. Overly blended cookie dough yields dense, robust cookie bars.
• Don’t overbake. The important thing to comfortable, chewy sugar cookie bars is to take the bars out of the oven whereas they’re nonetheless a tad underbaked. They need to be simply browned on the edges, and comfortable within the center. The bars will proceed to arrange as they cool.
• Let the cookie bars cool. Talking of cooling, give the bars sufficient time to chill off fully as soon as they’re out of the oven. If the bars are nonetheless heat, the frosting will slide proper off.

Simple Variations

These cookie bars are scrumptious simply as they’re, or you’ll be able to simply change up the add-ins, flavors, and decorations on your subsequent big day! You’ll be able to flip nearly any sugar cookie recipe into bars simply by adjusting the baking occasions. Attempt these concepts:

• Flavoring – Add just a few drops of flavoring extract, akin to peppermint, almond, or orange extract.
• Chocolate – Borrow my comfortable chocolate sugar cookie dough and make bars as a substitute.
• Funfetti –  Add a handful of rainbow sprinkles to the cookie dough. I like to recommend utilizing jimmies (the colourful rods) versus nonpareils (the little balls) as jimmies gained’t bleed colour into the cookie dough.
• Sweet – Fill your bars with chopped chocolate bars, white chocolate chips, or add M&Ms to make M&M cookie bars. For the vacations, make sweet cane sugar cookie bars.
• Snickerdoodles – Attempt Snickerdoodle bars for a straightforward variation topped with cinnamon sugar.

Can I Put together These Bars In Advance?

Sure! You’ll be able to bake the cookie bars and make the frosting as much as 1 day forward. Retailer the cookie bars hermetic at room temperature and the frosting lined within the fridge till you’re able to frost and serve. Alternatively, freeze the unfrosted sugar cookie bars hermetic for as much as 2-3 months, and thaw them within the fridge earlier than frosting.

Learn how to Retailer Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars

• To Retailer. Retailer the frosted bars in an hermetic container at room temperature for 1-2 days. After that, preserve them within the fridge for as much as 3-4 days.
• Freeze. I like to recommend freezing sugar cookie bars earlier than they’re frosted (see above for make-ahead suggestions). Nonetheless, it’s also possible to freeze the frosted bars. Retailer them tightly and preserve them frozen for as much as 3 months. Defrost the bars within the fridge earlier than serving.

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