Gingerbread Cookie Bars are a fabulous way to say ‘I love you’ not just during the holidays, but anytime of the year!
It’s a bar, it’s a cookie, it’s a bar, it’s a cookie! Â Who cares what it is…it’s yummy! It’s Gingerbread Cookie Bars!
All the flavors of a gingerbread cookie in the convenience of a bar cookie!  Okay, my ‘bars’ look more like pieces of cake. I have “portion issues”.  You could go smaller if you were so inclined.  Smaller bars would probably yield about 24 cookies or a half inch off your waist.  These are not diet bars…repeat, not diet bars!  They are sweet and gooey and just what a serious dessert lover ordered, I can’t get enough of these Gingerbread Cookie Bars!
Super easy to make, with everyday ingredients.  You can sub all the spices for 1 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice, if thats easier for ya,  and I have also heard rumors that  ‘some people’  BUY their cream cheese frosting rather than make it from scratch…say it isn’t so!
These would be great for a bake sale or to bribe your hubs into hanging up those holiday lights!
If you need more cookies (and who doesn’t?). Â Check these two out…they are my faves for the holiday and of course….easy!
Perfect Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Clink!
Kathi
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter melted
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- â…“ cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- For Cream Cheese Frosting or you can cheat and buy a can...
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Grease a 9×13″ baking pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, and molasses.
- Add egg and stir until completely incorporated.
- Add baking soda, flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and salt and mix until well combined. Press dough evenly into the bottom of greased pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes and let cool.
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Cream butter and cream cheese together in a large mixing bowl. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth and cream.
- Frost the bars and serve!
- I garnish the tops of mine with a little nutmeg.
- Cut into 12 large or 24 small bars
Nutrition
This Gingerbread Cookie Bar recipe was lovingly borrowed from six sisters.com
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