Sugar Cookie Bars
photo by Probably This
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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24 bars
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
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Bars
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature (I use half butter, half margarine.)
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 5 cups flour
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Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons milk
- food coloring, if desired
directions
- Bars: In a large bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each egg. Mix in vanilla and almond extract.
- In a separate bowl whisk together flour, salt & baking soda. Add to wet mixture and mix just until combined.
- Spread on a greased, rimmed baking sheet (use a 13 x 18 pan). The dough will be just like cookie dough- heavy & sticky- so it’s best to spray your hands with a little nonstick spray and use them to help mold the dough into the pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10 mins - 15 mins, until light golden brown or until a toothpick comes out clean. (I like to slightly under cook mine. I take them out at 10 minutes exactly. They are not brown at all, but I think that they are better this way.).
- Cool completely before frosting.
- Frosting: In a large bowl, beat butter, vanilla, almond extract and salt.
- Add powdered sugar (1 cup at a time) until combined.
- add milk & mix until smooth and spreading consistency.
- Add a few drops of color, if desired.
- Spread over cooled cookie, then cut into bars.
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Reviews
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The cookies are soft and satisfy the sugar cookie craving with less mess and time. First, please note this is NOT a 9 X 13 pan. I was baffled though over the 23 bars. I cut these into 24, but with the thickness of the cookie they really could be cut smaller. The texture of the dough was very thick so I ended up adding approx 1/3 cup of milk. The almond flavor made these special & they diappeared quickly. Thank you for sharing your recipe! :-)
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I followed the recipe exactly, even took your recommendation and removed from the oven at 10 minutes. They are so easy and taste awesome. Not dry at all and were easy to cut after being decorated. I just let them set for about 30 minutes for the icing to get firmer and then sliced into bars. They look so pretty on my cookie tray and everyone keeps going back for more. These are sure to be a regular on my holiday cookie list.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
mom_of_4
United States