Recipe: Delicious Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars. Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cookie Recipes From Kraft®. Using a knife, you can cut the roll of sugar cooking dough right in half. Whip up the cream cheese filling, which is a mixture of cream cheese, egg, and vanilla extract.

Pour on top of the baked crust. These sugar cookie bars are iced with a creamy butter cream frosting that includes cream cheese. The frosting will mix better if the butter and cream cheese have come to room temperature before you mix them. 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. It's 1 cup of of softened butter.
3. Prepare 1 of egg.
4. You need 8 oz of of cream cheese.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of of baking soda.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of of vanilla (or more to taste).
7. You need 2 1/2 cup of of flour.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of of baking powder.
9. Prepare 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. You need 1 of Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..

The cream cheese makes the frosting thick and easy to spread. Frost the sugar cookie bars with the cream cheese icing, garnish with sprinkles, and cut into bars. For the Fourth of July, serve Easy Sugar Cookie Bars with red, white, and blue fresh berries on top. Made with a delicious cream cheese frosting!

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars instructions

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..

Cut this recipe in half, and bake them for around the same amount of time, until the center is set. Spread frosting over cooled cookie bars. Press two-thirds of the dough into the pan in an even layer, and reserve the rest of the dough. Add in vanilla, salt, and flour and beat again. These pillowy soft cookies with dreamy buttercream frosting will make you question why you've ever made any other type of sugar cookie.