BEST Sugar Cookie Bars

These are the BEST Sugar Cookie Bars recipe! They’re soft and tender and chewy and covered with the best buttercream sugar cookie frosting EVER. This recipe is easy and fast and who doesn’t love a sugar cookie bar??

If I could pick only one cookie to eat for the rest of my life, it would be sugar cookies. Whether they’re drop sugar cookies or cutout sugar cookies, I love them, with or without frosting.

BEST Sugar Cookie Bars

I decided to share these sugar cookie bars for for a few reasons:

1. Sugar cookie bars, duh. Who doesn’t love them?
2. SPRINKLES!!
3. The first thing I read on Lindsay’s blog several years ago was a sugar cookie cake. She’s the queen of them!

Sugar cookie bars are one of my favorite desserts – ever. They’re easier to make than regular sugar cookies and have a thick layer of frosting on top and sprinkles, which are required in my world. What’s better than that??

NOTHING.

I think I could make sugar cookie bars for every occasion: birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day…the options are endless.

How to Make Sugar Cookie Bars

This recipe starts with my perfect sugar cookie recipe. Instead of dropping them, I pressed the dough into a 9×13-inch pan. Once the bars are baked and cooled you top them with an incredible frosting. I love my frosting recipe because of a secret ingredient: heavy whipping cream. It makes the frosting so smooth and delicious.

Of course, you can tint the frosting any color you want using food coloring, but I love the look of sprinkles. Nowadays you’re not limited to just nonpareils or jimmies; sprinkles come in all sorts of combinations now! In the past they were only online, but I’ve even seen them at JoAnn’s and Michaels lately.

Regardless of how you decorate them, they are perfect and pretty for any party…especially a baby shower!

Tips for making the perfect sugar cookie bars:

• When baking, these are done just before they look done; that is, slightly golden around the edges but not golden in the center. They finish cooking as they cool.
• Make sure to start with room temperature butter when making the frosting. It’s easier and you’ll get a smoother spread.
• You can use milk in the frosting, but the heavy whipping cream makes a silky and delicious frosting recipe!

The BEST Sugar Cookie Bars

These are the BEST EVER Sugar Cookie Bars recipe! They’re soft and tender and chewy and covered with the best buttercream sugar cookie frosting EVER. This recipe is easy and fast and who doesn’t love a sugar cookie bar??

5 from 3 votes

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Yield 24 bars

Serving Size 1 bar

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Ingredients

Cookies:

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract optional
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all purpose flour

Frosting:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1-3 tablespoons milk or heavy whipping cream
• Sprinkles and/or food coloring if desired

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9×13-inch pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
• Cream butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat in egg and both extracts. (Almond extract is optional, but adds amazing flavor!) Mix in baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Slowly mix in flour.
• Press dough into prepared pan.
• Bake for 14-19 minutes The sides will just be getting golden and the center will look a little under done. Cool completely before frosting.
• Make the frosting: Beat butter until creamy with a hand or a stand mixer. Mix in salt. Slowly add in powdered sugar until mixture is crumbly. (It will be very crumbly if using a hand mixer, more smooth if using a stand mixer.) Add vanilla and 1 tablespoon milk or cream. Mix until the frosting comes together and becomes smooth, adding additional teaspoons of milk as needed for consistency. If you want your frosting to be a color, tint it now.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 1bar | Calories: 154kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 1272mg | Sugar: 15g

Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate

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Published on: January 24, 2018