Make These Quick And Easy Spring Cookies

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These Buttery Bar Cookies Are Perfect For Any Occasion

These delightful spring cookies taste amazing! They are buttery and soft and melt in your mouth when you bite into them! Spring is coming fast, and we’ll be entering a busy time of year that brings a flurry of activities.

Graduations, spring luncheons, bridal, and baby showers will pop up on our calendars like dandelions! Here is a perfect spring cookie for any of those festive occasions.

The pastel sprinkles are baked right into the bars and lavished on top of the thick buttercream icing. We love the wee bit of crunch the sprinkles add when you eat them, and they have such a happy look on a plate!

I have a hard time staying away from them and try to limit myself to one or two a day, so I hope to have help from my grandkids so they won’t stick around to tempt me! The bars will stay nice and fresh in a tightly covered container for almost a week!

Why You'll Love These Spring Cookies

The terrific thing about these sugar cookie bars is you can change them for any holiday by changing the sprinkles or tinting the buttercream!

How fun for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Fourth of July! They are quick and easy to make with very basic ingredients!

How To Make Spring Cookies

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a square baking pan with parchment paper.

Cream together a stick of butter and a cup of sugar until it’s fluffy, then beat in an egg and a teaspoon of vanilla. A touch of salt is always a good thing in a sweet cookie, so use salted butter or add a scant teaspoon of salt if you’re using unsalted butter.

This dough is thick, so I found my trusty Danish whisk the perfect tool! Stir in the flour and baking powder until no flour is showing. Finally, stir in the sprinkles before pressing the dough into the pan.

Pat the dough into place using your hands or the back of a spoon to ensure it is as evenly distributed and level as possible. Bake for about twenty minutes or until the top is light golden brown.

You can use an eight-inch or nine-inch square pan. If you use the smaller pan, the bars will be a little thicker, and you may need to bake a wee bit longer. Remove the pan from the oven and set it on a cooling rack until you can handle the pan easily.

Lift the cookie bar from the pan onto the rack and let it cool completely before frosting it. While it’s cooling, mix all the frosting ingredients until fluffy. Spread the frosting on the cooled cookie bar and add sprinkles as desired.

Cut the bar into strips one inch wide, then divide it into thirds to have a cookie bar about one inch by three inches long. These bars are a fun treat any time, and because they are sweet, rich spring cookies, smaller pieces are ideal.

I used the sweetest springy pastel sprinkles I could find, and I think they look adorable! You could also tint the buttercream icing with food coloring to make any pastel shade you want! I chose a pale yellow color for my buttercream, and I think these spring cookies will be so pretty on our dessert table!

These delicious spring cookies are irresistible! They have a buttery vanilla flavor and a texture similar to shortbread. Of course, buttercream frosting adds a delightful flavor to anything you bake!

Spring is coming fast, Mother’s Day is coming, and so many graduation and confirmation parties and showers are popping up on our calendars! Surprise someone with these fun sugar cookie bars. They are so quick and easy to make.

Here are more of our fun springy recipes we’re sure you will love!  How To Make Perfect Asparagus, Easy Do Ahead Creme Brule French Toast, Adorable Bird Nest Cookies.

PRINTABLE RECIPE CARD

Yield: 27 bars

Spring Sugar Cookies

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Delicious buttery sugar cookie bars are thick, chewy, and topped with amazing buttercream frosting.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Additional Time 30 seconds

Total Time 35 minutes 30 seconds

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
• 1/4 cup holiday sprinkles or holiday chips
• One recipe of Buttercream Frosting
• Sprinkles, chips, or candies for topping as desired

Buttercream Frosting

• 1/2 cup (one stick) butter, at room temperature
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 3-4 Tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a 9"x 9" baking pan with parchment or wax paper.
3. Beat the butter and sugar until the mixture is fluffy, then beat in the eggs and vanilla.
4. Stir in the flour and baking soda. The dough will be quite thick.
5. Finally, gently fold in the sprinkles and press the dough evenly into the pan.
6. Bake for about 20 minutes or until light golden brown.
7. Cool and lift the bar out of the pan before frosting. Make sure the bars are completely cool.
8. In a large bowl, beat the powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk until light and fluffy. If the frosting is too thick, add a little milk at a time until it reaches the desired consistency. If it is too thin, add a little powdered sugar at a time.
9. Spread the frosting on the cooled cookie bar, and add sprinkles as desired.
10. Cut the bars into 24 squares or approximately one-inch-wide strips. Then, divide the strips into thirds to make a cookie bar about one inch by three inches long. This is a sweet, rich cookie, so smaller pieces are ideal.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

27

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 221Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 154mgCarbohydrates: 40gFiber: 0gSugar: 29gProtein: 2g

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