Celebrate the holidays with a bang by serving these super easy cookie bars! They’re packed with Golden Oreo™ cookies, M&M’s™ candies, chocolate chips, peanuts and festive sprinkles, and it all gets topped with a white chocolate drizzle. Yep, you’re gonna want second one!
Ingredients
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookies
3 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
8 Golden Oreo sandwich cookies, coarsely crushed (about 1 cup)
1/2 cup red, white and blue M&M’s™ candy-coated milk chocolate candies
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup coarsely chopped cocktail peanuts
2 tablespoons red, white and blue candy sprinkles
1/4 cup white vanilla baking chips
Heat oven to 350°F. Let dough stand at room temperature 10 minutes to soften. Spray 13×9-inch pan with cooking spray.
In large bowl, break cookie dough into small chunks. Add cream cheese and flour; stir with spoon or hands until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Stir in crushed cookies, candies, chocolate chips and peanuts. Spread in bottom of pan. Sprinkle candy sprinkles on top.
Bake 25 to 29 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes.
In small microwavable bowl, microwave white vanilla baking chips uncovered on High 30 to 60 seconds or until chips can be stirred smooth. Spoon melted chips into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; partially seal bag. Cut off tiny corner of bag; squeeze to pipe over top of bar. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Cut into 6 rows by 4 rows.
The secret for cutting bars easily is to line the pan with heavy-duty or nonstick foil. When it is time to cut the bars, just lift the baked bar with the foil out of the pan, and cut. This also makes cleanup extra easy.
Customize this cookie bar for any holiday by using other colors of the candies and sprinkles.
