Sugar Cookie Bars with Marshmallow Fluff Frosting

I have a sweet post for you today, Sugar Cookie Bars. Sometimes i'm just too lazy to make cookies. You know the drill...make the batter, fill up the cookie sheet, bake for 12 minutes, repeat. Over and over. Call me crazy, but sometimes I just want to put the pan in the oven, set the timer for 25 minutes and be done with it. And this is exactly the recipe for doing that.

These are delicious sugar cookie bars with an equally delicious marshmallow fluff frosting. I may never go back to traditional buttercream again. Marshmallow fluff frosting (with rainbow sprinkles!) is where it's at. And will probably be responsible for an extra pants size. Or two.

You can color the frosting whatever color your heart desires. These are the perfect take anywhere cookie bar!

Here are the recipes for both the bars and the frosting. I hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Sugar Cookie Bars
recipe from Cookies and Cups

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.
3. In your mixer cream butter, cream cheese and sugar together. Add in egg and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
4. With mixer on low, add in your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and baking soda.
5. Mix until just combined.
6. Press dough evenly into your prepared pan. This is a tough step, the dough will be super sticky!!
7. Bake for 20 minutes until edges begin to golden.
8. Cool completely before frosting.

Marshmallow Fluff Frosting

• 1/2 cup butter room temp
• 1/2 cup Marshmallow Fluff
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1-2 Tbsp milk or water

1. Mix butter and Fluff until smooth on medium speed until smooth.
2. Slowly add in powdered sugar with mixer on low.
3. Add in milk and turn speed up to medium and mix until all combined and smooth.
4. Color frosting if desired. I typically use the Wilton gel color (bought at Michael's) because it doesn't dilute the frosting like liquid food coloring.

Happy Friday!

Oh, Happy Friday! I have a quick ankle update today. After a few weeks of seemingly no-progress physical therapy I finally feel like i'm making some headway. And I reached a big milestone this week...I get to ditch my walking boot! Wednesday was my first full day without wearing the boot and I'm telling you, my legs are tired. I'm using muscles I haven't used in months and it's been a tiring adjustment. BUT I am boot free and moving forward and feeling good about it.

I would also like to just say thanks to all of you! You always leave me such nice comments here and I read every single one of them. Whether it's crafting related or ankle related or baked good related, I appreciate you all coming to visit me here in my little corner of the blog world. Thank you!

And here's a little thank you card just to say...You're A Peach!

I hope you all have a fantastic Friday!!! Thanks for stopping by today!

She's Crafty!!!

Oh yes, my daughter is crafty. She loves crafts. Any kind of crafts. She loves those craft kits you buy at Michael's, she loves coloring on anything she can get her hands on and she loves digging through my scrap stash. This past weekend she wanted to look through my magazines to get some new ideas for making cards. She found two cards that she wanted to replicate and she got to work.

A card with cute band-aid stamps immediately caught her eye. Since I didn't own the stamp, she drew her own band-aids, colored them and cut them out. And created this card! Isn't it cute?

She then saw me making rolled paper flowers and insisted that I show her how. She rolled quite a few and then put together this card. She had fun digging through all my baker's twine to make that bow. I think I have another baker's twine addict in the family. Don't blame me, the stuff is addicting.

I printed out the sentiments on the computer for her. She was really proud of herself and I was too! I love crafting with her.

I hope you are having a great week so far. Thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Card. Yes, Another One.

I think Thank You cards are my very favorite to make. Because I always have a need for them. And there are so many fun 'thank you' sentiments, no two thank you cards are ever the same. I recently found this pack of prima flowers in my stash and thought...why haven't I used these? They are so pretty?? So, I did. And guess what I made?

Really, all this card needed was that flower. Oh, and some baker's twine. It's been at least 12 hours since I used baker's twine on a project and I was starting to get twitchy. And I think my border punch at the bottom took 2 inches off my card so it looks short and stubby. But look at that flower, isn't it pretty???

I need to look through my stash more often. There seems to be a whole lot of goodies hiding in there. Have you looked through your stash lately? What did you find?

Happy Tuesday, friends!

Card Kit Club

I am lucky enough to be in a really fun card kit club with 3 other scrappy blogging friends. This month it was my turn to put together a kit and send it out. It was harder than I thought it would be!! But today is the big card reveal and I can't wait to see everybody's cards. Here are mine...

I included three different stamps from the PSA Essentials Happy Hour stamp set. I matted it and added it to an embellished tag for my main focal point. Isn't she cute? And happy after that glass of wine?

And I used some scraps to make a second card. I have been seeing this design everywhere...the 4 squares together with rounded corners (there has got to be a more official name for this design, anyone??) and wanted to try it out myself.

And next time I will tuck in that hanging piece of twine, ha ha!! I can't wait to see what all my scrappy friends came up with. Go visit their blogs and leave them some love...

Beth
Joni
Mary

Thanks for stopping by today!

Friends with Prima

Happy Saturday!! I have one more layout I would like to share that I created using my February 'Thank You, Kindly' Citrus Tree Studios kit. I had one more photo of my daughter and her friends from a vintage dress up birthday party they attended and it once again went perfectly with the Prima papers in the kit.

There were so many pretty flowers and pretty flower centers in this kit. There were Doodlebug gems and Prima Pebbles to create dimension. I really loved this pebble, it matched the friend theme perfectly!

I layered lots of paper and flowers and journaling spots down in the corner. And added some punched butterflies. Please excuse the sideways butterfly, I think he drank a little too much nectar.

When all is said and done, I really loved this kit. I forced me to work outside my regular comfort zone of scrapping and I really like the layouts and cards I created. Yeah for great kit!!

Now, i'm off to my son's basketball game this morning. What are your plans for this weekend? I hope you have a good one. Thanks for stopping by!

Cake Batter Blondies

As much as I love to experiment in the kitchen, sometimes I just don't have time. But sometimes I really want cake. I mean, really want cake. I recently checked out some of my favorite food blogs, checked the pantry for a box of cake mix and marshmallow fluff and ended up making these...Cake Batter Blondies.

Now if you seriously honestly want to impress your neighbors and make new friends, make them a batch of these. The base is vanilla cake mix with white chocolate chips and marshmallows mixed in. And then you top it with a marshmallow fluff frosting.

Here on the West Coast, marshmallow fluff is not easy to find. You can find marshmallow creme, but it's not the same. Trust me on that. I am lucky enough to have family on the east coast and they sent me a 6-pack of marshmallow fluff for Christmas. Yes, a 6-pack. That's the way to my heart!

I took a pan of these to a party and they got rave reviews. It just reminded me that complicated doesn't always mean good. You can stay simple and still get rave reviews!

If you want some rave reviews, please check out the recipe at Cookies and Cups: Cake Batter Blondies.

Happy Friday friends!! Thanks for stopping by today!