Snickerdoodle Bars

Snickerdoodle Bars

Ingredient:

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 1/4 cups sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

2 1/3 cups flour

1 1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. cinnamon

1 Tbsp. sugar

Glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar

1-2 Tbsp. milk (1 1/2 Tbsp is perfect)

1/4 tsp. vanilla

Cream together butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well.

snickerdoodle bars mixing

Add dry ingredients. Pour 3/4 of the batter into a greased 9×13 pan. (It doesn’t actually pour, more like scoop it into the pan and then spread it out.)

snickerdoodle bars layer 1

Mix Tbsp of cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle over layer. Put remaining batter on top.

snickerdoodle bars layer 2

snickerdoodle bars layer 3

Bake at 350 for 25 min. (The recipe actually says 30 min, but we think they’re softer and better at 25 min.)

snickerdoodle bars glazed

Cool slightly. Drizzle with glaze.

snickerdoodle bars glaze

Now. A variation.

Lexi (11) makes these bars, but she kind of has a hard time with spreading the remaining dough on the cinnamon layer. And it is hard… the dough is sticky and firm and the cinnamon layer offers no traction. It even takes me 4-5 minutes just to spread that layer on. So, we tried something and it worked! We mixed the Tbsp of cinnamon right into the dough. The 2 bars taste the same and it’s so much easier to spread all the dough in the pan and pop it into the oven instead of the 3 layers.

and enjoy !