Recipe: Yummy Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars. You can add sprinkles to decorate them, but they are optional. Thin icing with milk and vanilla extract. Mix cream cheese and white sugar together in another bowl using an electric mixer until blended. Add eggs, milk, and vanilla extract; mix until blended. Pour on top of the baked crust.

Cut this recipe in half, and bake them for around the same amount of time, until the center is set. Again, be careful not to over-bake them 🙂 Looking for more "bar" recipes? Try these: S'more Cookie Bars These easy sugar cookie bars are super soft thanks to cream cheese in the dough, and are topped with the best vanilla buttercream frosting. You can have Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars

1. You need 1 1/2 cup of of sugar.
2. You need 1 cup of of softened butter.
3. You need 1 of egg.
4. Prepare 8 oz of of cream cheese.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of of baking soda.
6. You need 1 tsp of of vanilla (or more to taste).
7. It's 2 1/2 cup of of flour.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of of baking powder.
9. It's 1 of For Frosting.
10. It's 1/2 cup of of softened butter.
11. Prepare 5 oz of of softened cream cheese.
12. It's 3 1/2 cup of of powdered sugar.
13. You need 1 of Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..

Beat in vanilla, almond extract, salt, and enough powdered sugar to make a spreadable frosting. Press two-thirds of the dough into the pan in an even layer, and reserve the rest of the dough. Add in vanilla, salt, and flour and beat again. Beat in egg just until smooth.

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars step by step

1. Mix eggs, butter, sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth and creamy..
2. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well..
3. Spread dough into a 12 x 17 jelly roll pan. Dough will be super, duper sticky! You will need to spread it in the pan like you are icing a cake. I used a large silicone head spatula to spread dough..
4. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven until golden brown (about 20 mins). Don't over cook or your cookies will be dry..
5. For frosting: cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar. Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..
6. Ice cookies when completely cool. Decorate if desired. Cut into squares. Store in tightly sealed container. No need to refrigerate..

On low speed, beat flour mixture into sugar mixture until well blended. Sugar Cookie Bars are baked on a cookie sheet, and then frosted with a thick white chocolate chip frosting. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer combine the butter, cream cheese, sugar, and egg blend with a mixer until nice and smooth. Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda. It is basically one cookie before you cut them into bars.