Decorated Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
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Decorated Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
Description
Decorated Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars start by combining flour, baking powder, sugar, cold butter chunks, egg, vanilla, and almond extract into a dough. The dough is pressed evenly into a half-sheet pan and baked to a light golden brown. Once cooled, a layer of vanilla frosting is spread over the cookie base, and light scoring creates rectangles to guide decorating.
The decoration uses red and white coloring icing piped to form shapes like Santa hats, along with chocolate frosting and various holiday-themed toppings such as mini M&Ms, sprinkles, pretzels, and edible snowflake shapes. This allows creating distinct festive bars suitable for holiday gatherings.
The texture is soft but firm enough to hold decorations. Cutting into bars is easier after scoring the frosted layer. The bars can be served as a seasonal treat combining sweet cookie base and diverse, colorful decorations.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter 2 sticks, cold & cut into chunks
- 1 egg
- 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
For the decorations:
- 2 oz. cans vanilla frosting
- 1 oz. can chocolate frosting
- 1 oz. Decorating Icing Wilton Brand, green, with tips
- 1 oz. Decorating Icing Wilton Brand, red, with tips
- M&M's mini
- M&M's regular sized
- Sprinkles red and green holiday
- pretzel rods
- Sprinkles small red
- Sprinkles small black
- sugar sprinkles coarse granulated
- Edible decorations snowflake shaped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In a small bowl stir flour and baking powder together. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in egg, extracts and vanilla bean. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients.
- Press dough into lightly greased half sheet pan (18x13) to create an even layer. Bake 15-20 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown. Cool completely.
- Using 1 can of vanilla frosting, cover the cookie bars with a thin layer. Score the top to create 25 rectangles (5x5) to help with decorating and creating even cookie creations.
- FOR SANTA: Using the Red Decorating Icing, pipe the entire length of one row of cookies to create the red portion of Santa's hat, like you're writing wide upside down U's. Fill a disposable icing bag with vanilla frosting and cut off the tip. Using circular motions, pipe white icing along the red hat border to create Santa's curly white hair. Create two rows. Using this same circular motion, pipe along the bottom edge of the cookie to create Santa's beard. Pipe on white mustaches. Add a red sprinkle or red mini M&M for the nose and two black sprinkles for the eyes. Sprinkle coarse granulated sugar over the hair.
- FOR RUDOLPH: Fill disposable icing bag with chocolate frosting and cut off the end. Pipe upside down U shapes onto each rectangle and fill in. Using a butter knife, spread frosting around to remove piping lines. Add either two brown mini M&M's or two black sprinkles for the eyes and red M&M's for the nose. Break apart pretzel rods and create antlers.
- FOR TREES: Using either the round or star tip, pipe green frosting into triangles and fill in. Sprinkle with red & green holiday sprinkles or mini M&M's. Add yellow mini M&M on top of each tree. Break apart pretzel rods to create tree stump.
- FOR SNOWMEN: Using the white frosting, pipe figure 8's onto each rectangle and fill in. Pipe a red scarf using the red frosting with either the round or star tip. Add two black sprinkles for the eyes and an orange mini M&M for the nose. Optionally: add three black sprinkles or two brown mini M&M's as buttons, edible snowflakes and coarse granulated sugar sprinkles as snow along the bottom.
- Once all of your little guys are decorated, take a large sharp knife or even a pizza cutter and cut along the scored lines to make individual cookie bars. Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 35cookie bars
Amount Per Serving
Calories 73 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 73kcal | 4% |
| Carbohydrates | 15g | 5% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Cholesterol | 4mg | 1% |
| Sodium | 7mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 42mg | 1% |
| Sugar | 7g | 14% |
| Vitamin A | 5IU | 0% |
| Calcium | 15mg | 2% |
| Iron | 0.2mg | 1% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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