Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars – Super soft and fluffy sugar cookies made into bars and topped with my Grandma’s irresistible icing!
My Grandma’s sugar cookie recipe is seriously the bes, but I don’t make them very often because it takes so much time to cut out the individual shapes, bake a million batches of them, and then decorate each cookie. It is seriously an all-day project!
Today’s cookie recipe may just solve all of those problems. It is basically one HUGE sugar cookie baked on one cookie sheet . . . the prep time and bake time is so short . . . and you only have to frost one LARGE cookie and cut them into bars.
I can honestly say that this is my family’s all-time favorite Christmas cookie. Every time I make them, no matter what I do, I CANNOT keep my family from hawking around the kitchen, waiting around to see if I’ll drop anything. I left the kitchen for 1 second to come back and find my little brother with his head literally inside the icing bowl!!
And when I was trying to take pictures this crazy Dad wouldn’t leave the kitchen until I gave him another one…
And for my mom… she claimed these to be the best cookies she has ever tasted. Coming from a chocolate-lovin’ cookie snob and very tough cookie critic, that says a lot. I guess you can say my family likes these cookie bars?
For the texture, the dough will be heavy and sticky. The best method for making an even layer of cookies is to lightly spray the top of the dough with non-stick spray. Be careful not to use too much, though, or the cookie will be very doughy after 12 minutes. However, the spray also works in your favor because the non-stick spray creates the most amazing soft-baked, chewiness that everyone loves about there sugar cookie bars.
… and if these haven’t lured you in yet, they are topped with my Grandma’s famous icing. She’s probably going to disapprove of me giving this secret of her’s out, but oh well; it’s for a good cause. 😉
This is very important to read: Because the cookie pan is so large, make sure you rotate the cookies 180 degrees halfway through the cooking process in order to make sure the cookies are evenly baked.