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How to Make Sugar Cookie Bars Video
recipe Ingredients
This Sugar Cookie Bar recipe uses pantry friendly ingredients; just keep some cream cheese handy, and you can make this recipe at a moment’s notice! Let’s take a closer look at what you’ll need (full measurements in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post):
For the vanilla cream cheese frosting:
How to Make sugar cookie bars
This Sugar Cookie Bars recipe come together in a few simple steps. Here’s an overview of the baking process (full recipe in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post):
Step 1: Mix the dry ingredients together. Combine the flour, baking powder, cornstarch and salt together in a bowl. Mixing the dry ingredients separately ensures that everything is evenly dispersed before combining with the wet ingredients and helps prevent overmixing.Step 2: Cream the butter and sugar. Beat the butter and granulated sugar together on medium high speed until fluffy.Step 3: Add wet ingredients. Add eggs, and egg yolk, one at a time, beating on medium speed just until blended. Beat in the vanilla extract and almond extract.Step 4: Add dry ingredients. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture and beat just until combined.
Step 5: Spread dough in pan. Transfer the dough to a 9×13 pan lined with overhanging parchment. The batter will be extra thick and sticky, so I’ve found it’s easiest to spread by coating a piece of parchment paper with nonstick spray, laying it on top of the dough, then using your hands to spread the dough into an even layer.
Step 6: Bake. Bake the bars just until the edges are slightly golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Step 7: Cool. Let the bars cool completely in the dish. Use the parchment paper overhang to remove the cooled bars to a cutting board to frost.Step 8: Make frosting. With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until creamy – about 2 minutes. Add powdered sugar, cream, vanilla extract and salt with the mixer running on low. Increase to high speed and beat for 3 full minutes.
Step 9: Frost cookie bars. Frost the bars with a thick layer of frosting and decorate with sprinkles if desired.
Step 10: Slice the bars. I love that you can control the size of the bars – make them small or make them larger depending on how many you are serving. But remember, everyone will want more than one!
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