Easy, low-sugar yet thick and chewy cookies, full of chocolate, no dough chilling or scooping necessary, with a vegan option?? SOLD.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, where have you been my whole life? I love a good chocolate chip cookie but I’ll be honest, cookies are a pain. The dough is hard to stir by hand, then you have to chill it, then you have to scoop it and sometimes roll into balls and flatten.. oof. That is why I always end up making some sort of bars instead.
So this recipe brings together my favorite treat (cookies) with my favorite baking technique (bars). The dough is softer and easier to handle with just a spatula (I do have a stand mixer but I almost NEVER use it), you pour the batter into a pan, bake it a tiny bit longer, let it cool and cut into squares! That is all.
I see a lot more bar cookies in my future but I’ll start with the classic chocolate chip.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 1 egg sub flax egg, or 3 tbsp mashed banana
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (112 g) dairy free if desired
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (96 g)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour (120 g) gf all purpose if desired
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips (90 g) dairy free if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line an 8×8 baking dish with parchment.
- Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl (or stove) and let it cool. If using vegan option, prepare your flax egg instead.
- Whisk in the egg, sugar, vanilla until smooth.
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt and combine with the wet mixture until combined (do not overmix). If crumbly splash some water or milk. Batter should be thick but spreadable (thicker than brownie batter).
- Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for about 30 minutes until the edges are browned and the center is set.
- Let cookie bars cool completely then cut into 16 and enjoy!
- Store leftovers in room temp or fridge.
I made this recipe and am a bit confused. Mine was not a batter, but a dough. It made essentially a giant cookie, not a bar. I’m also confused how you would get 16 out of this recipe as it would make each serving essentially a bite. Not sure what I did wrong? It’s a good cookie tho!
Oh no! That’s a head scratcher. I’ve made these a few times and had other people make them too. The batter should fill up an 8×8 baking dish so each of 16 slices is 2 inch by 2 inch 🤷♀️ Did you weigh your ingredients or just go by cup measurements? Sorry you had a bad experience but glad to hear they were at least tasty! ❤️