How To Make Vanilla Cookie Bars with Vanilla Frosting Recipe
Thanks to plenty of vanilla beans, these vanilla cookie bars make the best dessert for any celebration. It is nut-free, decadently moist, and super tasty.
Serves:
Ingredients
Bars
- 2¾cupsall-purpose flour
- 1¼tspbaking powder
- ½tspsalt
- 1cupunsalted buttersoftened
- ¾cupgranulated sugar
- â…”cuppowdered sugar
- 1smallSeeds of vanilla bean
- 2largeeggs
- 1tspvanilla extract
Frosting
- ½cupbutter
- 1smallSeeds of vanilla bean
- ½tspvanilla extract
- 2½cupspowdered sugar
- 3tbsphalf and half
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 13×9-inch baking dish, set aside.
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In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer. whip together butter, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, and vanilla bean seeds until pale and fluffy.
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Stir in eggs one at a time then mix in vanilla. Slowly add flour mixture and mix just until combined.
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Spray hands with non-stick cooking spray and gently press mixture into prepared baking dish.
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Bake until bars are set and no longer doughy in the center, about 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely, then frost and cut into squares.
Frosting:
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip butter with vanilla bean seeds until light and fluffy.
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Mix in vanilla, powdered sugar, and 2 Tbsp half and a half and mix until light and fluffy.
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If needed add more half and half, 1 teaspoon at a time to reach the desired consistency.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 300.14kcal
- Fat:Â 14.71g
- Saturated Fat:Â 9.09g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.56g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 3.85g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.69g
- Carbohydrates:Â 39.89g
- Fiber:Â 0.46g
- Sugar:Â 26.34g
- Protein:Â 2.62g
- Cholesterol:Â 56.04mg
- Sodium:Â 91.60mg
- Calcium:Â 33.39mg
- Potassium:Â 34.06mg
- Iron:Â 0.94mg
- Vitamin A: 126.63µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.02mg
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