Easter Egg Hunt Sugar Cookie Bars are a fun Easter dessert recipe to make with your kids! These easter cookie bars include a sugar cookie base, chocolate buttercream, oreo crumbs, edible easter grass and candy eggs.
1cup (226g)unsalted butter2 sticks, room temperature
½cup (99g)Domino® Sugar
½cup (107g)Domino® Light Brown Sugar
2largeeggs
¼tspalmond extract
2cups (240g)all purpose flour
1tspbaking powder
½tspsalt
Chocolate Buttercream
1cupunsalted butter2 sticks, room temperature
½cup (43g)cocoa powder
3cups (339g)Domino® Confectioners Sugar
milk or heavy cream as needed
Decorations
Green edible Easter grass *see notes
⅓cupcrushed chocolate creme cookies
Candy eggs
Instructions
Cookie Bars
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
In a medium-large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar, and brown sugar, beat using an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes, until fluffy.
1 cup (226g) unsalted butter, 1/2 cup (99g) Domino® Sugar, 1/2 cup (107g) Domino® Light Brown Sugar
Add in the eggs and almond extract, beat together.
2 large eggs, 1/4 tsp almond extract
In a small bowl, combine the all purpose flour, baking powder and salt and gently stir to combine. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing by hand with a spatula, until it’s incorporated.
2 cups (240g) all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt
Spray a 9x13 inch pan with non-stick spray. Scoop the batter into the pan and use your hands to press the dough into an even, flat surface. *Spray your hands with a little bit of non-stick spray to make this easier.
Bake for 24 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Immediately put the pan in the fridge (I like to set my pan on top of a trivet in the fridge). Allow the bars to cool for 1 hour.
Chocolate Buttercream
In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter using an electric mixer until fluffy, around 1 minute.
1 cup unsalted butter
Add in the cocoa powder, and mix together. Begin to add the confectioners sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing by hand first, then with the electric mixer. Continue adding powdered sugar until the frosting isn't too wet and tastes good to you. If the frosting becomes too thick, add a dash of milk or heavy cream.
1/2 cup (43g) cocoa powder, 3 cups (339g) Domino® Confectioners Sugar, milk or heavy cream as needed
Decorating
Remove the cookie bars from the fridge. Use a spatula to smooth and spread the frosting evenly over the bars.
Use a scissors to cut the edible Easter grass into smaller pieces. Cover the frosting with as much grass as you’d like.
Green edible Easter grass *see notes
Sprinkle crushed chocolate creme cookies pieces on top.
1/3 cup crushed chocolate creme cookies
Add candy eggs. Cut and serve!
Candy eggs
Video
Notes
You can find edible Easter grass at World Market stores or you can order it from Amazon. If you aren’t able to easily find edible grass, you can use shredded coconut mixed with a little bit of green food coloring as a substitute.This recipe turned out great using gluten free flour too! We love King Arthur Gluten Free Measure for Measure Flour.