An quick and delectable alternative to the classic cookie are these shortbread sugar cookie bars.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 bars |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix flour, butter, confectioners’ sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Pat dough into a 9-inch square baking pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, 30 to 35 minutes. Cut into bars while still warm.
- Feel free to use margarine, if you prefer.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 180 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 126 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These were super easy and delicious! I would absolutely make again! I needed an easy recipe to deliver to a sick neighbor along with chicken soup. I doubled the recipe and kept a pan for us. will save this recipe as one of my favorites! I can see other uses, too! I’m thinking it would be great patted out thinner and up the sides of the pan and baked as a crust, then filled with pudding or other toppings. Yum!
I loved this simple recipe! It worked out exactly as I wanted! I used King Arthur strawberry yogurt chips for a nice frosting. They’re yummy!
Very easy shortbread recipe. Goes great with coffee or tea in the morning. I think next time I’ll frost some of them with chocolate for snacks/dessert.
Very good and easy, but next time I plan on patting dough a bit thinner. I made a light orange flavored frosting/glaze for them. Yummy!
Easy and yummy. Half I made per recipe and the other half I added dried lavender and lemon peel to batter and drizzled with a light lemon glaze – pleased two people with one recipe