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posted: 12/02/15

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These Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars are so amazingly buttery and delicious! The perfect treat for the holidays.

The the Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars is stalked high showing the distinct layers of the sugar cookie and chocolate and topped with crushed peppermint

This recipe for sugar cookie bars are the perfect blend of buttery soft sugar cookie and delicious chocolate peppermint. It is so tasty! You start with the best sugar cookie recipe ever and then move on to what is lie a chocolate ganache with peppermint it. You end with these baking chips on top for a little pop of color and crunch. They would make an amazing holiday treat! If you are looking for other chocolate peppermint treats you are going to want to make these Chocolate Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies, this Peppermint Hot Chocolate, this Chocolate Peppermint Lasagna, and these Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies! You will also love these Vanilla Bean Snowball Cookies!

You guys . . . these caused me so much trouble to photograph. I literally took 170 photos of these bars.

You guys. That’s a lot of photos.

An overhead photo of the Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bar Stacks showing the crushed peppermint on top of the chocolate layer.

And here’s the problem (besides the ridiculous amount of time spent on it). I ate tiny slivers of them each and every time I took pictures of them. I might have had to make a second batch . . . . You guys, my muffin top hates me. Or loves me depending on where you think a muffin top would stand on being a muffin top.

The the Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars is stalked high showing the distinct layers of the sugar cookie and chocolate and topped with crushed peppermint

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that you have to make these. They are so ridiculously good. Just maybe don’t photograph them. :)

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Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars

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Ingredients

  • For The Sugar Cookie Layer
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 14 TBSPs unsalted butter room temperature
  • 2 tsps vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • For the Chocolate Peppermint Layer
  • 6 oz milk chocolate chips
  • 8 TBSPs unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  • On medium low speed, beat the butter and sugar for about three minutes, until it is light and fluffy. Then add the vanilla, and one egg at a time, combining for about thirty seconds after each addition.
  • Gradually add the flour mixture until it is well combined, scraping down the sides of the mixing bowl as necessary.
  • Press the cookie dough into the bottom of a 9×13 inch pan and bake for about 30 minutes. Let it cool on the counter for about 10 minutes, and then put it in the refrigerator for a half hour.
  • Once the cookie bar layer is completely cooled, melt the chocolate chips and butter together in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between until fully combined. Pour over the sugar cookie bars. Sprinkle with the peppermint chips. Allow the chocolate to set completely before cutting.
Author: Lisa Longley

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Gingerbread Cookies

Perfect Cut Sugar Cookies

The the Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars is stalked high showing the distinct layers of the sugar cookie and chocolate and topped with crushed peppermint

Hi! I'm Lisa Longley, and I am committed to giving you simple dinner ideas and recipes that are easy to make; recipes that will fill your home with joy. I am the owner and author of SimpleJoy.com and I'm so glad that you are here.

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  1. Mir says

    I hate it when things won’t photograph right. But you got it in the end! Such a good idea, too!

  2. danielle clarke says

    these look so yummy!!! They are definitely going on the baking list for Christmas!!! And I might just photograph them! ;)

  3. ColleenB.~Texas says

    Bars look yummy
    Thank you for this wonderful giveaway opportunity

  4. Vickie says

    Love this giveaway..love everything
    But, it was such a challenge to enter for me..lol.
    3 days..never got the Pinterest links to work..so I got them one by one..looking up.
    Anywho..got in in the nick of time
    Thanks.
    Merry Christmas

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