14 Easy Cookie Bar Recipes That Are Even Better Than Cookies
Why scoop and bake individual cookies when you can make easy, delicious cookie bars instead? These 14 cookie bar recipes take all the best parts of your favorite cookies—chewy centers, crispy edges, and irresistible flavors—and make them even simpler to bake. With minimal effort and no rolling or shaping required, these bars are perfect for quick treats, bake sales, or sharing with friends and family. Get ready to whip up a batch of cookie bars that just might be better than cookies themselves!
Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
With their soft, buttery texture and creamy vanilla frosting, these Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars are the perfect combination of sweet and indulgent! Whether you’re looking for a dessert to share with friends or a special treat for yourself, these sugar cookies in bar form will hit the spot!
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are delicious and oh so simple to make. They’re like a thick, ooey gooey version of your favorite chocolate chip cookie with chocolate mint candy pieces melted on top.
Twix Cookie Bars
Twix Cookie Bars are a homemade treat that combines buttery shortbread, smooth caramel, and rich chocolate all in one bite. These bars are guaranteed to transport you back to childhood memories of sneaking sweets from the pantry.
Christmas M&M Cookie Bars
These festive Christmas M&M cookie bars are packed with red and green holiday M&M’s, mini chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips! They’re a great start to your holiday baking and a delightful treat for cookie swaps and holiday cookie trays!
Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
These Christmas sugar cookie bars have all the flavor of your favorite sugar cookies but in the form of a 9×13 dessert cookie bar! The ultra-soft sugar cookie dough is baked until fluffy and just slightly golden. They are then topped off with super simple vanilla buttercream frosting and colorful Christmas sprinkles!
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
Peppermint sugar cookie bars feature a soft sugar cookie base that is topped with peppermint buttercream and crushed candy canes! These bars are easy-to-make, completely festive, and insanely addictive! Serve them at any wintertime get-together for a popular dessert that everyone will love!
Chocolate Chip Salted Caramel Cookie Bars
Chocolate Chip Salted Caramel Cookie Bars will really be the star of every dessert table. These chewy bars are loaded with a lush, creamy caramel filling with a chewy cookie base.
Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
These Peanut Butter Cookie Bars are bound to be a hit! This recipe for peanut butter blossom bars will be your families go to recipe when you’re craving this classic flavor combination.
Easy Magic Cookie Bars
Magic Cookie Bars are layers of delicious graham cracker crust, covered with a gooey caramely layer stuffed with chocolate, nuts, and coconut. These Magic Cookie Bars are perfect to bring to parties, picnics, or just a simple dessert.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Bars
These Pumpkin Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Bars start with a Golden Oreo crust filled with a pumpkin cheesecake filling, then are topped with sugar cookie dough and sprinkled with cinnamon chips! They’re the perfect combination of sweet treats for fall!
Fairy Bread Sugar Cookie Bars
Fairy Bread, an Australian children’s birthday party staple, is turned into rich, buttery, sugar cookie bars loaded with sprinkles!
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
Looking for a festive and easy cookie recipe to make this holiday season? Try making Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars! These delicious bars are topped with a creamy, minty frosting that melts in your mouth. A great holiday treat!
7 Layer Magic Cookie Bars
With a buttery graham cracker crust, sweetened condensed milk, and an assortment of chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans, each bite of these 7 Layer Magic Cookie Bars are packed with the perfect texture and flavor to enjoy as a snack or decadent dessert!
Gluten-Free Tahini Cookie Bars
These Gluten-Free Tahini Cookie Bars are oil-free, nutty and perfectly sweet. The addition of chocolate chips makes them the perfect dessert to bring to your next party!
