Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars

These Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars are a delicious and easy-to-make treat recipe! The basic sugar cookie base is topped with a sweet and fluffy buttercream frosting and sprinkles – it’s the perfect kid friendly dessert that the whole family will love!

You guys, it’s taken me more than 2 years to share these Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars with you and it’s about time!! This was actually the very first recipe I ever tried after joining Pinterest so many years ago. I had a family function to attend, I’d just had a baby a month before and I needed a quick dessert to make. I executed my very first Pinterest search and these Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars were the winner!

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 tablespoons full fat sour cream
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

For the frosting:

• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 6 tablespoons whipping cream
• a splash vanilla extract
• a pinch sea salt
• food colouring if desired
• sprinkles if desired

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a 9-inch by 13-inch rectangular baking pan with butter.
2. In a large bowl using a hand mixer or in the bowl of your stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar on high speed for several minutes until they're creamed together (fluffy and smooth and pale in colour).
3. Beat in the sour cream, egg, and vanilla extract until well incorporated.
4. Add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix on low speed just until combined. The mixture may appear slightly crumbly but this is totally normal.
5. Press the mixture into the bottom of the prepared baking pan with your hands or a flat kitchen object like the bottom of a measuring cup.
6. Bake the sugar cookie base at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for about 16-17 minutes, making sure that no browning occurs on the edges. If the edges start to brown, remove the base from the oven immediately.
7. Please visit Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars for full instructions.