Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars. These easy frosted sugar cookie bars are sure to put a smile on your face! Soft & chewy, with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting & plenty of sprinkles! It was a rough few days after the surgery I mentioned in my last post (Chocolate Chip Cake), but I'm good now, and there was.

From soft frosted sugar cookies, chocolate sugar cookies, and sugar cookie bars, to notes on how to make my classic sugar cookies thick and soft, we've covered a lot. The benefit of making sugar cookie bars is there is no rolling and cutting needed before you bake. I found it easiest to spread it with an offset spatula. 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. Prepare 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. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of of flour.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of of baking powder.
9. You need 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. It's 1 of Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..

Thick, soft and chewy Sugar Cookie Bars have the same great taste you love from a classic sugar First of all, they are incredible easy to make. Normal sugar cookies require chilling the dough Next, smooth the cream cheese frosting on top. You can leave it white, or color it with food coloring. Cream cheese sugar cookies are soft, tender, and chewy with incredible flavor.

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..

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