How to Make Tasty Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars

Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars. Delicious red velvet sugar cookie bars with cream cheese frosting without all of the hard work! These could quite possibly be the best cookie bars that I have ever made. I mentioned earlier that my oven went out. We thought that it was fixed but now it gets way to hot and burns things.… And that cream cheese frosting turns this from an amazing red velvet sugar cookie bar to an incredibly irresistible red velvet sugar cookie bar. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.

If you love red velvet cake, then you'll love these homemade Small Batch Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars from scratch without cake mix, complete with a small batch of cream cheese frosting and sprinkles. As a blogger, I couldn't get through February and not post a red velvet recipe, right? These Red Velvet Bars are decadent, delicious, and topped with the best cream cheese frosting! You can cook Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars

1. You need of Cream Cheese Frosting.
2. It's 16 oz of cream cheese.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
4. You need 2 cup of powdered sugar.
5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. You need of Red Velvet Bars.
7. You need 3 1/3 cup of flour.
8. It's 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
10. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
11. Prepare 2 tbsp of red food coloring.
12. You need 1 cup of butter.
13. It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
14. Prepare 2 of eggs.
15. You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.

If you love red velvet cake, then these red velvet sugar cookie bars are the thing for you! They are melt in your mouth delicious! These cookie bars would make the a great Valentine's Day dessert. You can be sure your cookies are the right thickness by using rolling pin rings.

Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare 9x13 pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder then set aside..
3. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and creamy (2-3 minutes).
4. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and food coloring until combined.
5. Add flour mixture until soft dough forms. Press into bottom of 9x13 pan.
6. Bake for 20 minutes until edges start to pull away from sides and toothpick comes out clean.
7. Cool before frosting.
8. For the frosting, beat cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat together until smooth.
9. Frost bars and enjoy!.

The bake time listed below is approximate. Depending on the size of the cutter you use, your cookies may need more or less time to bake. This recipe starts like most, beating the butter and sugar until they're nice and fluffy, then adding the eggs, followed by the vanilla and food coloring, and finally the dry ingredients. If you're as used to red velvet cake as I am, it can seem almost alarming when making the batter for these bars because of how thick and dense the batter is. Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat cake mix, melted butter and eggs with whisk until well combined.