Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
These Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars are a fun treat to serve during Christmastime. These soft sugar cookie bars are decorated with Christmas M&M's, white chocolate chips, and semisweet chocolate chips.
Servings: 15 bars
Calories: 406kcal
Equipment
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Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla Extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup Christmas M&Ms reserve ¼ cup
- 1 cup Chocolate Chips reserve ¼ cup2
- ½ cup white chocolate chips reserve ¼ cup
- ¼ cup Christmas sprinkles plus some for decorating
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉
- Line a 9X13 baking pan with parchment paper. This will make it easy to release the bars from the baking pan.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Cream together the softened butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar with a handheld mixer or until creamy.
- Add in eggs and the vanilla extract and beat until combined.
- Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until just incorporated.
- Gently stir the M&M's and both kinds of chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Spread the sugar cookie bar dough into the prepared pan by stretching and pressing the cookie dough to the edges of the pan.
- Sprinkle the remaining M&M's and chocolate chips on top of the cookie dough. Gently press the candies down into the top of the cookie dough.
- Sprinkle extra Christmas sprinkles onto the dough.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the top of the cookie dough is lightly brown.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before removing it from the baking pan by lifting it out using the parchment paper.
- Once cooled completely, cut into bars.
Notes
The sugar cookie dough can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 406kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 255mg | Potassium: 105mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 443IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg
