Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars – Sugar Cookies in the form of a bar. Thick, chewy, and full of peppermint chips. Topped with a butter cream frosting and more peppermint shavings!
Welcome to Day Four of Christmas Week. This event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We hope to inspire you to break out those holiday sprinkles and get your bake on!
I am a sucker for anything with mint this time of year. I had to kind of hold back, I had 4 or 5 mint treats I wanted to make to share with you this year. Seemed a little like overkill, so I mixed it up. But no worries, those ideas will come another time! A few years ago I made sugar cookie bars for the first time. They are like a super thick sugar cookie, with no rolling or cutting of the dough. Super easy and so good! Since my family loves sugar cookies, I thought why not dress that recipe up for Christmas.
The key to making these peppermint sugar cookie bars irresistible, is to slightly under bake them. That is the key to most brownies and cookies, but here it makes a big difference. Because these bars are so dense, they can go from chewy and delicious to dry and crumbly very quickly. So best to error on the side of caution! I used a bag of the Andes Peppermint Crunch baking chips in these bars. For the topping I very finely chopped the white chocolate peppermint Hershey’ Kisses. But you could use more of the baking chips, crushed candy canes, or even just some festive sprinkles. No matter what you do, these bars will be amazing and sure to please your guests this holiday season.
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars - Sugar Cookies in the form of a bar. Thick, chewy, and full of peppermint chips. Topped with a butter cream frosting and more peppermint shavings!
Ingredients
- Bars
- 1 cup butter, , softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 5 cups flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 (10 oz) package Andes Peppermint Crunch baking chips
- Frosting
- 1 cup butter, , softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups powdered sugar, (approximately)
- 1/3 cup milk, (approximately)
Topping
- 1/2 cup finely chopped candy cane Kisses
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 13 x 9 in pan with foil. Spray with non-stick spray.
- In an electric mixer cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each egg. Stir in vanilla. In another bowl mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda. With the mixer on low, slowly add in the flour mixture, until just combined. Fold in the peppermint crunch baking chips.
- Spread the dough into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 10-15 minutes, a tester should come out clean.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting.
- To make the frosting cream the butter until fluffy. Add vanilla, milk, and 1/2 of the powdered sugar. Continue adding powdered sugar to get to the right consistency. You might have to adjust the milk or powdered sugar to make it spreadable.
- Spread over the cooled bars. Sprinkle the chopped candy cane kisses over the bars.
Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
24 ServingsAmount Per Serving Calories 429Total Fat 18gSaturated Fat 11gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 73mgSodium 277mgCarbohydrates 63gFiber 1gSugar 40gProtein 4g
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Christie - Food Done Light says
These look so awesome. My daughter would be a huge fan with the peppermint plus they look so festive.
Carla says
As much as I love eating sugar cookies, I hate cutting them out and decorating. I think bar cookies are the way to go 😀 As for my favorite thing to bake for the holidays, anything and everything gingerbread!
heather+@french+press says
these are SO much better than rolling, and cutting! and yes to all the peppermint
fabiola@notjustbaked says
Oh good question! First of all, these bars make me want to go bake right now! Second, my favorite thing to bake right now are scones, and galettes. Perfect for the holidays.
cristina says
What’s not to luv about your sugar cookie bars with peppermint?! Festive and will look delicious on any cookie platter (and be the first to go too!). 🙂
Jen+@+Yummy+Healthy+Easy says
For reals, I just drooled. These look SO good! Sugar cookie bars AND peppermint? Perfect!
Kristen says
I am a huge mint fan, too. The only trouble is, my husband likes it in very small doses, so I rarely get to indulge in making decadent mint desserts like those sugar cookie bars. They sound wonderful.
Liz says
Oh, I love these bars, Erin! A peppermint treat is a must at our house for Christmas, and yours look divine!
Caralyn @ glutenfreehappytummy says
so festive!!
Mindy says
We made these over the holiday, they were refreshing and a big hit.
Donna says
I tried this twice and am having a problem. The center does not bake evenly. double checked oven temperature with a laser thermometer and checked the center with a toothpick which came out clean. The center 4 rows came out doughy and somewhat raw. Any suggestions?
Erin S says
Donna, I am sorry these are giving you troubles. It seems like you have a hot spot in your oven. If the center is done, then I think you need to try rotating them part way through the cooking time. You could try testing with a toothpick in multiple locations and rotate and move around the oven accordingly.
Donna says
I think we got our signals crossed. The center is not done baking and the outside edge row is perfect. please advise.
Erin S says
Sorry, when you said the toothpick came out clean I thought that meant they were done. So I would try lowering your oven temperature just a little bit and baking them longer. The outside is always done faster than the inside of a bar recipe, that is just the way the oven heats things. So you will need to just bake them longer until the center is done. Lowering your oven temperature will just slow things down and help them cook in a little more evenly.
Donna says
I’ll try that. Thank you.