Recipe: Tasty Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars. Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cookie Recipes From Kraft®. Thin icing with milk and vanilla extract. Spread green icing over cooled cookies. Pour white icing into a resealable plastic bag. Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars I love baking Christmas cookies during this time of year, but sometimes I don't have time to roll them out and ice them.

This is the perfect solution for your sugar cookie fix! Add eggs, milk, and vanilla extract; mix until blended. Pour on top of the baked crust. You can cook Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of of sugar.
2. You need 1 cup of of softened butter.
3. You need 1 of egg.
4. Prepare 8 oz of of cream cheese.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of of baking soda.
6. It's 1 tsp of of vanilla (or more to taste).
7. It's 2 1/2 cup of of flour.
8. You need 1 tsp of of baking powder.
9. You need 1 of For Frosting.
10. You need 1/2 cup of of softened butter.
11. It's 5 oz of of softened cream cheese.
12. It's 3 1/2 cup of of powdered sugar.
13. Prepare 1 of Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..

These Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars are amazing! They have the same great taste of sugar cookies without all the hassle. Not only do the bars themselves have cream cheese in them, I made a cream cheese frosting too! These bars are so light and fluffy!

Easy Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Bars instructions

1. Mix eggs, butter, sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth and creamy..
2. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well..
3. Spread dough into a 12 x 17 jelly roll pan. Dough will be super, duper sticky! You will need to spread it in the pan like you are icing a cake. I used a large silicone head spatula to spread dough..
4. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven until golden brown (about 20 mins). Don't over cook or your cookies will be dry..
5. For frosting: cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar. Thin with milk or lemon juice to get desired consistency..
6. Ice cookies when completely cool. Decorate if desired. Cut into squares. Store in tightly sealed container. No need to refrigerate..

When I made these sugar cookies bars my husband thought I made just one large cookie…haha. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer combine the butter, cream cheese, sugar, and egg blend with a mixer until nice and smooth. Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Cut this recipe in half, and bake them for around the same amount of time, until the center is set. Pour this over the cake mix layer.