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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…with lots and lots of Christmas cookies! Heck, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, ’tis the season to stuff your face with party food and sweets, right? I love baking Christmas cookies and thought I’d try to come up with a new Christmas Cookies Bars recipe to share with you all!
I started with this Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip pan cookie recipe and added seasonal M&M’s Christmas Baking Bits
This is a pretty simple recipe, and I think it will be perfect for making cookie bars throughout the year.
Just change the chocolate chips for regular ones and you can buy any kind of M&M’s – or omit them altogether and just add extra chocolate chips!
Christmas Cookie Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup Crisco (or you can use butter)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar – firmly packed
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup M&Ms baking bits or Mini M&Ms
Directions
Preheat your oven to 375. Spray a 13×9 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, then cut a piece of parchment paper to fit inside the dish so that the bottom is completely covered. Spray that with nonstick cooking spray too.
BELIEVE ME – these are necessary steps if you’d like your cookie bars to come out of the baking dish without falling apart and sticking!
Combine the Crisco, vanilla, eggs and sugars and beat until light and creamy.
Add the dry ingredients and beat for one minute, or until a thick dough forms.
Stir in chocolate chips and M&M’s by hand – you don’t want to crumble them!
Pour into your baking dish and cook at 375 for 20 minuntes.
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Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup Crisco or you can use butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips
- 1 cup M&M's baking bits they're basically mini M&M's
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 375. Spray a 13x9 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, then cut a piece of parchment paper to fit inside the dish so that the bottom is completely covered. Spray that with cooking spray too.
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Combine the Crisco, vanilla, eggs and sugars and beat until light and creamy.
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Add dry ingredients and beat for one minute, or until a thick dough forms.
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Stir in chocolate chips and M&M's.
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Pour into your baking dish and cook at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.
I hope you like these cookie bars as much as I did!
If you liked this Christmas Cookie Bars Recipe, check out my other Christmas Cookie Recipes!
Cake Mix Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Easy Homemade Christmas Snowball Cookies Recipe
Hot Cocoa Cookies Recipe for Santa Claus
Mocha Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Oatmeal Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Mint Truffle Kisses Surprise Cookies Recipe
Santa’s Lumps of Coal Cookies Recipe
Penelope says
November 28, 2014 at 11:42 amOh my gosh, does that look delicious! Jenn, what are you doing to me, stop making me addicted to your blog!
Heather says
November 28, 2014 at 11:45 amThese look so good! My family would love to gobble these up!!
Liz Mays says
November 28, 2014 at 2:12 pmThose festive colors added to the bars really make them irresistible!
Anne - Mommy Has to Work says
November 28, 2014 at 2:58 pmIf I made that I would too much of it! It looks so good!
Nicole Dz says
November 28, 2014 at 8:26 pmYummy colorful goodness, love the green and red M&M’s in this. Awesome sweet treat for the holiday season.
Colleen says
November 28, 2014 at 8:29 pmYum that looks so rich and tasty.
Raijean says
November 29, 2014 at 12:22 amYes, those cookies look amazing. I’m going to try this and see how it comes out.
Jennifer Tilson says
November 29, 2014 at 12:32 amBar cookies are so under appreciated! All the glamour of cookies with less work. And, these are colorful to boot! They wouldn’t last in our house.
HilLesha says
November 29, 2014 at 12:47 amI normally don’t like M&Ms, but that looks so good that I”d eat it without a second thought!
M.Clark says
November 29, 2014 at 1:01 amThese Christmas Cookies Bars look delicious, I can’t wait to try them, I’ll make them with M&Ms and without. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Angelica M says
November 29, 2014 at 1:50 pmLook delicious! Love how the use of different colors to make every occasion special!
Tammy Litke (@threedifferent) says
November 29, 2014 at 3:22 pmDefinitely a winner recipe to bring along to a social gathering. Kids and adults alike will eat them up fast I bet!
Rust says
November 29, 2014 at 3:36 pmLooks like a keeper to me …perfect for the care packages I will be sending out for Christmas. Thanks!
megan b says
November 29, 2014 at 7:21 pmHave you tried the recipe with milk? Or are they chewy already? This recipe sounds delish!
christina p says
November 29, 2014 at 8:05 pmThese look great! my daughter would love to make this…and eat it too!
Heather in VA says
November 29, 2014 at 8:41 pmThis looks so yummy! I think it would be good with mint m&m’s!
vanessa: thequeenofswag says
November 29, 2014 at 10:58 pmThose looks super tasty and so festive. Thanks so much for sharing the great recipe.
Ty says
November 29, 2014 at 11:55 pmThese look utterly delicious and so festively colorful.
Crystal says
November 30, 2014 at 10:55 amI know my kids would adore these. The red & green make them really festive & fun!
Sarah Matos says
November 30, 2014 at 7:59 pmMy girls would love to make these. We are always looking for new holiday treats to make.
Anne says
November 30, 2014 at 8:40 pmAs much as I love cookies (and that is a lot!), I don’t often make them because all that shaping is just too fussy. I love the idea of cookie bars, which I am always more likely to make, and these look so pretty with the Christmas candies. Thank you for the recipe. I’m adding it to my list for holiday baking.
Tania B says
December 1, 2014 at 1:42 pmHow festive and yummy! I might just make it this week. Thanks
jane martin says
December 2, 2014 at 7:53 amI love making cookies into bars, much easier.
s.w. says
December 2, 2014 at 1:50 pmLove this idea! I would love to have this after school or work.This would also be great for after brunch.
Kyla @HouseofHipsters.com says
December 3, 2014 at 1:30 pmI could so go for one of these bars right now! Yum! We would love to have you share them at our link up party Found & Foraged this Friday at 8PM Central Time (normally it starts on Saturday at 8PM, but this week only it starts on Friday). I hope you can make it over to http://houseofhipsters.com/
Jenn says
December 3, 2014 at 1:45 pmThanks so much, I am going to try to make it! 🙂
Abby says
December 24, 2015 at 3:32 pmSadly, I agree with the other comment about the greasiness. Just got these out of the oven and they are way too mushy and greasy, definitely inedible. I used butter instead of Crisco, so maybe that’s where it went wrong. They smell great, but didn’t turn out as I hoped 🙁
sasha payne says
December 3, 2014 at 8:56 pmthese look great!
Rhonda Martin says
December 6, 2014 at 5:54 pmThese would so kill my diet but I could always make it for my friend who is addicted to M&M’s lol She would devour these~!
Bren says
December 11, 2014 at 11:49 amHow long will these store & save to have for events during the Christmas & Holiday Season?
Sarah says
December 23, 2014 at 9:01 pmI made these tonight and they turned out awful. All the chocolate chips fell to the bottom. I used butter and it is a greasy mess. I did notice that you say to use a 9×13 pan but you show a 9×9 square pan. I used a 9×13 so maybe that’s where I went wrong.
Jenn says
December 24, 2014 at 4:56 pmOh no! I am sorry that it didn’t turn out for you. I showed a 9×9 square pan in my photo, but that is because I used two pans because I made a bigger batch – I made a lot for gifts. I find that butter is more greasy than Crisco but wow, it shouldn’t have been that bad 🙁
Marcie W. says
January 22, 2015 at 5:29 pmI would be interested in making these with Valentine’s Day M&Ms for all three of my children’s classrooms. Such a colorful fun treat.
Katie says
December 23, 2015 at 7:20 amIve made 2 batches of these already for Christmas. They are a hit with all the cookies we give to friends and family. And I cant stop eating them!!
Linda says
January 4, 2018 at 12:07 amI made these at Christmas time and used m&m peanut butter and m&m peppermint chips. They were delicious and a big hit with the family!