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This chocolate chip cookie bars recipe is our family’s go-to Sunday night dessert! It’s your favorite cookie in bar-form, perfect with ice cream!
Our FAvorite Cookie in Bar Form!
Over the years, we’ve come to find some go-to desserts for family gatherings and these cookie bars are at the top of the list!
We’ve decided you really can’t beat Chocolate Chip Cookies in bar form. You get all the delicious flavor of your favorite cookie, but it’s ready in only one batch! Our kids especially love whipping these up for family game nights. There are plenty of crispy edges to enjoy and enough gooey centers to make everyone happy.
We often serve them with Vanilla Ice Cream, and I can safely say EVERYONE in the family loves them.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
Ingredients
PREP TIME: 5 minutes COOK TIME: 25 minutes
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar – or dark brown sugar
- ¾ cup unsalted butter melted – or salted butter
- 2 eggs – room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour sifted – see How to Measure Flour
- 1 teaspoon salt – Reduce or omit if using salted butter.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ cups chocolate chips – milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips. Or try dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, M&Ms, toffee bits, flaky sea salt, or chopped nuts (peanuts, pecans, or walnuts).
How to Make Cookie Bars
- PREP. Begin by greasing a 9×13-inch glass baking dish and setting it aside or Line the Pan with Parchment Paper.
- BATTER. In a medium bowl, combine 2 cups brown sugar, ¾ cup butter, 2 eggs, and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix well with a wooden spoon or a mixer on the lowest setting.
- Gradually add 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and ¼ teaspoon baking soda. Stir until well combined and pour into the prepared baking dish.
- BAKE. Sprinkle with 1½ cups chocolate chips and bake for 24–28 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan before cutting.
- The bars will have a slightly dull surface and the edges of the crust should also begin to harden and slightly pull away from the surface of the baking dish.
- If the center is undercooked, return them to bake in the oven immediately and check them for doneness at 5 minute intervals.
- SERVE. Serve warm and eat by themselves or with ice cream.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ cups chocolate chips, semisweet or milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9×13-inch glass baking dish and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
- Gradually add flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir until well combined and pour into the prepared baking dish.
- Sprinkle with chocolate chips and bake for 24–28 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan before cutting.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
The dough can be made ahead of time and refrigerated for 1-2 days or frozen for up to 3 months. Thaw, if needed, press into the pan and bake.
Cookie bars can be stored in an airtight container for 3-4 days or in a freezer Ziploc for 2-3 months
Love these! So much easier than scooping and baking them by the dozens…
These bars are the simplest and simply the best. We looove making them!
Love these cookie bars, they look so good. Going to put some ice cream and caramel on the top!
A pan of cookie bars is so much easier than making individual cookies. Thanks for a great recipe!
These are every kind of amazing!
These are by far my favorite!! We’ve tried them with butterscotch chips & m&m’s, too! They are always gone within minutes & I even double the recipe!
Cookie bars are so easy and fun, plus these taste amazing!
The best dessert that resembles a warm giant chocolate chip cookie! Only differeNce is its served as a bar with the chocolate chips on top. We like to serve it ice cream and sometimes hot fudge.
ThesE were so easy to make and i had all the ingrEdienTs in mY pantry! They tasted amazinG too!!
I love when I have all the ingredients on hand! Glad you liked them! Thank you!
I mUst have done something horribly wrong because when i finished mixing everything and started to pour it into my 9×9 pan, i realized there was simply not enough batter to cover the bottom! I tried spreading it as much as i could but it waS spread so thin there were holes everywhere. I decided to double the recipe and add it to the same 9×9 pan. Then it came out fine?? I am seriously not a great cook or baker, so i know it HAS to be my fault somehow haha im always messing things up! I Triple read your recipe and i swear i made no errors! Story of my life though, things not working out quite precisely! Haha ? Tastes great though!!
Oh, no I am sorry! It should be enough. I’m not sure why it didn’t??