Sugar Cookie Bars (No Bake)

These sugar cookie bars are a easy no bake dessert recipe that includes a tender and chewy bar base topped with a creamy sugar cookie frosting!

Should you love sugar cookies and dessert bars, merge the 2 to make these unbelievable sugar cookie bars. They’re excellent for Christmas and want just some minutes to assemble.

Now, my sugar cookie bar recipe is just a little bit completely different as a result of I skipped the baking course of utterly, however I promise you- it does NOT compromise any style, taste, or texture.

Desk of Contents

1. Recipe highlights
2. Substances wanted
3. Find out how to make sugar cookie bars
4. Recipe suggestions and variations
5. Storage directions
6. Incessantly Requested Questions 
7. Extra cookie recipes to attempt
8. Sugar Cookie Bars

Recipe highlights

• Excellent texture. They’ve an ideal melt-in-your-mouth texture- tender and chewy and so irresistible. 
• Straightforward to make. Like oatmeal bars, all you do is combine up the components and refrigerate. No baking is required!
• Versatile. You possibly can enhance them with sprinkles or icing or get pleasure from them plain. I personally love a mix of frosting adopted by some sprinkles. Apart from, they appear higher that method too.
• Comparatively wholesome. No white flour, no wheat flour, and no granulated sugar, these bars make a healthful dessert concept…however I promise you, it received’t style wholesome.

Substances wanted

The recipe makes use of easy pantry staples. Here’s what you’ll want: 

• Almond butter. Supplies a wealthy, nutty taste and binds the components collectively. It’s additionally a more healthy various to butter or oil.
• Coconut flour. Provides the bars a chewy texture and helps to soak up moisture.
• Maple syrup. Sweetens the bars and helps preserve them tender. You can even use honey or agave syrup.
• Vanilla extract. A should for any cookie-inspired recipe!
• Almond extract. The key ingredient that makes this dessert one thing particular.

Sugar cookie buttercream frosting 

• Unsalted butter. Room temperature. Should you favor candy and salty desserts, you need to use salted butter.
• Confectioners sugar (Powdered sugar). Sift your sugar if the clumps are noticeable.
• Vanilla extract. Only a contact for that delicate vanilla taste.
• Milk. Thins out the frosting and makes it simpler to unfold.
• Sprinkles. Non-compulsory, however extremely advisable!

Discover the printable recipe with measurements under.

Find out how to make sugar cookie bars

Prep. Line an 8 x 8-inch pan with parchment paper. 

Make cookie batter. Combine almond butter and maple syrup in a mixing bowl till mixed. Add vanilla and almond extract, and coconut flour and knead every little thing collectively till a clean dough types. 

Refrigerate. Switch the dough into the lined pan and press down firmly, earlier than refrigerating them.

Put together frosting. Cream the butter till fluffy. Add remaining frosting components and beat on low pace. As soon as every little thing is mixed, enhance the pace to medium. Fold via the sprinkles, then unfold on the sugar cookie base.

Refrigerate then slice. Refrigerate the bars for an hour for the frosting to agency up. As soon as agency, slice into bars.

Recipe suggestions and variations

• Sift the coconut flour. My #1 tip when working with this grain-free and gluten-free flour. It’s usually just a little clumpy, so sift it effectively to make sure the cookie base might be clean.
• Lower with a heat knife. Earlier than slicing the chilled bars, run a pointy knife beneath scorching water, wipe it dry, after which minimize the bars. The nice and cozy knife will create cleaner cuts and stop the bars from sticking to the knife.
• Use one other flour. I favor utilizing coconut flour as a result of it’s thicker than other forms, however oat flour and almond flour may even work. The one catch is that you simply’ll must double the quantity to compensate.
• Add mix-ins. Whereas I favor these dessert bars as is, you possibly can fold via some chocolate chips, chopped nuts, and even selfmade sweet to amp up the flavour.
• Use a cream cheese frosting. Swap out the frosting for a cream cheese frosting instread.

Storage directions

To retailer. Place leftover cookie bars within the fridge in an hermetic container for as much as every week. 

To freeze. Wrap them tightly in plastic wrap or foil then place them in an hermetic container and retailer them within the freezer for as much as 6 months.

Incessantly Requested Questions 

Extra cookie recipes to attempt

Recipe initially printed November 2018 however up to date to incorporate new data, new photographs, and a recipe video on your profit.