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Chocolate chip sugar cookie bars, slathered with creamy peanut butter frosting. This is what sugar cookie bar dreams are made of!
The Bug loves cookies. And chocolate. The Bug also loves peanut butter, and he also has no attention span. So for Mama Monday and the kickoff of #CookieWeek, the perfect recipe for he and I to bake together is Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookie Bars with Peanut Butter Frosting!
Welcome to Cookie Week my little cookie monsters! Susan of The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen and Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic have joined together this week with 23 of their blog friends to present to you a week of cookie treats! We have every type of cookie recipe you can think of listed this week, including something for our furry friends!
Now is the time to bookmark these recipes for the upcoming holidays and cookie swaps!
Last year I told you about The Bug’s issues with baking, and why instead of the more detail oriented drop cookies or cut out cookies, we opt for Sugar Cookie Bars. Well this year I wanted to come up with a new version. And since it is something he and I do together, I wanted to use some of his favorite ingredients. And while I rave up and down about how much he likes things like cauliflower and roasted broccoli and salmon, but really, all he wants is chocolate chips and peanut butter.
One time. ONE TIME The Hubby made him a waffle with peanut butter and chocolate chips on top for breakfast, and now he asks for it all the time. Much to his disappointment, he gets a bowl of yogurt and fruit or some oatmeal. Sorry kid.
But, you know, cookies are a special treat, and I mainly only bake cookies for Christmas, so Christmas Cookies are a really special treat. Since these are destined for the freezer till closer to Christmas, they are, technically, Christmas Cookies! So I figured I’d turn plain old Sugar Cookie Bars in to The Bug’s Ultimate Sugar Cookie Bar – which naturally meant chocolate chips and peanut butter frosting!!
And of course his favorite part – sprinkling some mini chips and sprinkles on top! OK, I lied. His favorite part is eating them.
NOTE: you’ll notice some of my chocolate chip sugar cookie bars look a little doughier.
I think my oven is heating unevenly, but to tell you the truth, I kinda love underdone cookies!
Look how seriously he takes his sprinkling duties! And how proud he was of the finished product! (Really he was just trying to get close enough to take a bite of what he thought was one giant cookie all for him. He did get to sample one or two, but the rest are now frozen till late December!
Now enough about my kid and chocolate chip sugar cookie bars.
What is your favorite cookie to bake during the holidays or for cookie swaps?
Enjoy the peanut butter frosted chocolate chip sugar cookie bars. Here’s the recipe!
Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookie Bars with Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 5 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup butter, room temperature (or 2 sticks)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Peanut Butter Frosting see below, or whatever frosting you like
- Optional sprinkles mini chocolate chips or peanut butter cups, etc.
For the frosting:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened (or 1 stick)
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
Instructions
For the cookies:
- Preheat your oven to 375°F and grease or line a 13×18 inch baking pan with parchment paper (I use the parchment to make them easier to remove).
- Sift or whisk together the flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
- Combine the butter and sugars in a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer and cream with stand mixer or hand mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition.
- Add the vanilla and mix well.
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and gradually add the flour mixture to the wet mixture, mixing until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Spread the dough on the prepared pan (I spray a spatula and sometimes my hand with cooking spray to do this).
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly golden and a toothpick comes out clean (it won’t look done, so use the toothpick test).
- Cool completely, then frost and decorate as desired.
- Cut into small squares.
For the frosting:
- Beat together the butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
- Reduce speed to low and gradually add the powdered sugar.
- Increase mixer speed, and add milk, 1 T at a time, to achieve desired consistency.
- Beat until light and fluffy.
Notes
Peanut Butter Frosting is from The Real Housemoms Makes 6-7 dozen cookie bars.
Do you love chocolate and peanut butter as much as The Bug? I’ve got you covered.
- The Bug’s Ultimate {healthier} Funky Monkey Cupcakes
- Chocolate & Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt Bars
- Salted Caramel Chocolate PB Krispie Bars
Plus here are all of today’s fabulous #CookieWeek recipes from my awesome bloggy pals!
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sandwich Cookies by The Cooking Actress
- Caramel Apple Cider Cookies by Like Mother Like Daughter
- Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookie Bars with Peanut Butter Frosting by Cupcakes & Kale Chips
- Chocolate-Filled Christmas Thumbprint Cookies by Food Lust People Love
- Chocolate Fudge Brownie Sandwich Cookies by Cravings of a Lunatic
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Cookie Cups by The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
- Chocolate Peppermint Raisin Cookies from It’s Yummi!
- Classic Gingersnap Cookies by In The Kitchen With KP
- Coffee-Toffee Thumbprint Cookies from Crumb
- Dark Chocolate Andes Cookie Cups by Beyond Frosting
- Double Chocolate Biscotti by Love and Confections
- Eggnog Cookies by Jen’s Favorite Cookies
- Extra-Chewy Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cookies from Omeletta
- Fruit Coolers by Texana’s Kitchen
- Gluten-free Elisenlebkuchen cookies by Masala Herb
- Iced Molasses Cookies with by i heart eating
- Nutella Cookies by Total Noms
- Orange Cream Cookies by Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker
- Peanut Butter Cup Sandwich Cookies by Chocolate Moosey
- Pumpkin Coconut Macaroons by 52 Kitchen Adventures
- Rolo Brownie Cookies from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Saketini Christmas Balls from NinjaBaking.com
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Ahh, these cookie bars look awesome! I approve of both chocolate chips AND chocolate jimmies. Totally the way to go.
Pinning!
Thanks Abbie!
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I love decorated sugar cookies and peanut butter blossoms. Wouldn’t be Christmas without them 🙂
My mom makes peanut butter blossoms every year.
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Christmas sugar cookies.
I have to bake Snickerdoodles every year for Christmas! I will be baking them tomorrow for a pot luck dessert!
I bake Snickerdoodles for my dad and sister every year!
My favorite cookie to make for the holidays or anytime is Sugar Cookies! I love that you can use cookie cutters and decorate accordingly for any holiday with Sugar Cookies!
So true!
Favorite cookie to make is mint dark chocolate chip cookies
Press cookies with candied cherries and red sugar!
I love making new cookie recipes. My
family really enjoys them too.
Everyone loves Snickerdoodles. I make them for swaps, to share at work, for meetings and parties!
My dad and sister’s favorite!
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they look yummy!
Thanks! They are!
I like to bake molasses spice cookies, although these look like something the kids might enjoy more!
Molasses spice is good, but I think the kiddies usually prefer chocolate chips 🙂
These look amazing!
Thanks!
Cookie bars are such a good idea. I need to make some
It’s a great way to make a ton of cookies at once!
favorite christmas cookie is russian teacakes…..they are easy to make and so easy!
Those are good!
My favorite cookie to make for Christmas is krumkake. That’s a scandinavian cookie you make with a special pan on the stove top. The cookies come out flat and you roll them around a dowel, so they’re cone shaped. I feel connected to my Grandma when I make them!
What a nice memory.
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My oven can be a little bit like that sometimes too, Brianne, so I try to remember to rotate the pan part the way through. “Try” being the operative word. 🙂 Your little helper is so cute! This summer I baked with my little six-year-old nieces and I think more sprinkles went in mouths than on cupcakes or sugar cookies. 🙂
I love your cookies bars with that peanut butter frosting! Bars are so much quicker to bake too.
Yeah, the little ones do like to “sample” a lot 🙂
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I love chocolate chip cookies and I love cookie bars because who has time to scoop all that dough 😀
Exactly!!!
My favorite cookie to back with the kids is the candy cane sugar cookies with red and white dough twisted in the shape of a cane. The kids love to help!
Those are fun!
I love baking fudge and cookie dough brownies!
Mmmmmm!
Gingersnaps – I never make them any other time of year
My hubby’s favorite for Christmas!
Those are some precious photos and story, Brianne <3 Makes me miss my great-nephew who is currently in Qatar. Through the changing decades of life and growing up of many nieces and nephews, sprinkles, chocolate and PB do seem to be a constant favorite!
I think I have many years of sprinkles and peanut butter to come 🙂
haha! I love the kids eyeing the cookies! What a fun way to start out cookie week!
I definitely have a little cookie monster!
I love the ease of sugar cookie bars. Your peanut butter frosting and chocolate chip additions sound fantastic!
They do make it easy to make a ton at once.
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I like to bake chocolate ginger bread men/women – the kids like them and I found a really easy and yummy recipe for them.
Fun!! The additional of chocolate sounds awesome!
I’ll have the gooey one on the very top!! Thanks….and a glasss of milk! 🙂
these cookies do call out for milk!
mmmm these bars look so good! I have never thought about adding chocolate chips to sugar cookies and this peanut butter frosting looks divine! I’m so glad to participate in cookie week with you!
My little guy wants to add chocolate chips to EVERYTHING!
I love to make date skillet cookies. My grandma used to make them and no one ever brings them so here are no duplicates.
That sounds like a unique recipe. My little guy is really into dates lately.
Here you go! No idea where she got the recipe but this is how I find it on my computer 🙂
Enjoy!
Jeanne Bruffy Gerber’s Date Skillet Cookies
1 C butter or margarine
1 C. brown sugar
1 ½ C. pitted, chopped dates
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 egg, well beaten and at room temp
3 C. crispy rice cereal
About 3 C. shredded coconut
Cook butter, sugar, salt, and dates over low heat until pasty, about 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat, let cool or you will cook the egg. then add vanilla, egg. Mix well. Return to low heat and cook for 2 minutes. Cool a little, then add cereal. After mixture has cooled so you can handle it with your hands, form into 1 inch balls and roll in coconut. Store in
air-tight container.
Oh thanks! Hmmm, I have an idea for these!
My favorite cookies to make are multichip cookies using semisweet, white and peanut butter chips
Awesome combo!!
These look so good! I’m so excited to be a part of #cookieweek with you! I could go for a dollop of peanut butter frosting right now 🙂
Oh the frosting was pretty incredible!
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Mmmmm these look delicious–and I love that they’re a bit underdone!
Thanks Kayle! My oven apparently wants to please everyone. Half fully done, half underdone!
I love cookie bars, too! And I can see why your sweet Bug is enamored with these!
My Bug loves his treats!
Peanut butter blossoms
One of our family faves!
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I’d have that big grin on my face too if I was staring at that big pan of cookie bars like the bug! Wow these just look insanely good. I’ll take a dozen. 🙂
You can have a dozen. That big pan makes about 7 dozen!!
I like to bake sugar cookies.