Lofthouse Sugar Cookie Bars

 

Lofthouse Sugar Cookie Bars

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Line a jelly roll pan (15x10x1) with aluminum foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.
3. In your mixer cream butter, cream cheese and sugar together. Add in egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
4. With mixer on low, add in your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and baking soda.
5. Mix until just combined.
6. Press dough evenly into your prepared pan. (dough will be sticky)
7. Bake for 20 minutes until edges begin to golden.
8. Cool completely before frosting.

Recipe from  Cookies and Cups

Here's the frosting recipe I used:

Vanilla Buttercream Icing
 

3/4 cup butter (1 stick and 1/2 stick)

1/4 cup shortening
3-4 cups of confectioner's sugar, sifted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3-5 tablespoons half and half (or milk)

Using a mixer, beat butter until it is fluffy.  Add 3 cups of sugar -
one cup at a time - mixing until it's completely incorporated.  Add
vanilla and half and half along with last cup of sugar and mix, adding
more half and half until the icing is the desired consistency.