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Valentines Day is this week! Hope you have some fun plans to look forward to!
Today, I have a killer cookie bar recipe for all of you Red Velvet lovers out there. These cookie bars have an amazingly moist, sugar cookie feel to them with just a hint of chocolate flavor. The cream cheese frosting throws them right over the edge of delightful deliciousness. If you like Red Velvet, I am going to wager you will absolutely love these bars. My friends and family gave them many thumbs up.
Let me show you how easy they are to put together!
Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Time: 15 minutes prep + 20 minutes cooking + time to cool and frost
Yield: One 9×13 pan
Recipe lightly adapted from The Recipe Critic
Red Velvet Bars:
1 C butter, softened
1 1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
2 t vanilla
2 T red food coloring (an entire 1 ounce jar)
3 1/2 C flour
1/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 t salt
1 t baking powder
Cream Cheese Frosting:
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 C butter, softened
2 1/2 C powdered sugar
1 t vanilla
dash salt
white sugar crystals (optional)
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place 1 cup softened butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar into your stand mixer or medium-sized mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed until the two are light and fluffy. Should take about 2 minutes.
3. Add two eggs…(wow, how did my fingers get so wrinkly!)
and mix for an additional 1 minute.
4. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 tablespoons (an entire 1 ounce bottle) of red food coloring.
Mix well to combine. Looks pretty, right!
5. In a separate bowl place 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder.
6. Sift 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder into the dry ingredients. Stir it well to combine and add it to the red mixture.
7. Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray it with cooking spray. The tin foil will make it easy to get these beautiful bars out of the pan.
8. Press the dough into the pan and bake for 20 minutes, or until a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow the bars to cool completely.
9. To make the frosting, place 2 packages softened cream cheese and 1/2 cup softened butter into your stand mixer or medium-sized mixing bowl. Beat until well combined. Add 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix until smooth and glossy.
10. Scoop the frosting onto your cooled cookie bars and spread it out evenly. Sprinkle it all with some white sugar crystals if you like. Dig in right away, or place the bars in the fridge for about 30 minutes. The bars (and frosting) will be easy to cut if they have had a chance to chill a bit.
Enjoy!
Just made these last night for my son’s birthday. So dry and no flavor. Had to throw them out. I believe recipe must be wrong.
Hello,
I tried this recipe out and my dough was very thick and very difficult to manipulate. Any tips??
I had the same experience as noted in other comments. That frosting is amazing but the dough was a very strange texture. Agree that there was little flavor and the end result leads me to believe there’s something missing with the recipe.