Peanut Butter Cookie Bars

These cookie bars are made with peanut butter and topped with peanuts - they're perfect for peanut lovers !

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The dough for these cookie bars is made with peanut butter and chopped unsalted peanuts, making these peanut butter bars a peanut lover's dream ! :)
Peanut butter cookie bars are easy to make ; they only require basic baking ingredients, and the result is a soft, chewy peanut butter cookie square.
You could also add some chocolate chips to the dough (about 100g - keep a handful on the side to sprinkle on top of the dough before baking, and stir the rest into the dough).

How to make peanut butter cookie bars :

Start by melting the butter with light brown sugar, powdered sugar, and vanilla sugar (vanilla sugar can be replaced by vanilla extract, in that case stir the vanilla extract in with the peanut butter, later). Set aside to cool.

Whisk some flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Set aside.

Add an egg and peanut butter to the butter/sugar mix (and vanilla extract if using). Mix until well incorporated.

Stir in the dry ingredients, then the chopped unsalted peanuts.

Press the dough into a square pan, sprinkle some chopped peanuts on top and lightly press them in (this is so they bake into the cookie bars, rather than stay on top). Bake for 25 minutes, let cool and cut into squares.

You might want to check out these recipes :

Homemade peanut butter

Chocolate chip Nutella oatmeal bars

Easter chocolate cookie bars

Nougat cream cookie slices

Let me know in the comments if you make these peanut butter bars ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Here is the recipe for peanut butter cookie bars :

Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
by A Cup Of Sprinkles, adapted from the book Pâtisserie Anglaise et Américaine

These cookie bars are made with peanut butter and topped with peanuts - they're perfect for peanut lovers !

Cook time : 25 minutes
12 servings
Keywords : peanut butter, cookie bars, peanuts

Ingredients :
85g of butter
80g of light brown sugar
80g of powdered sugar
1 tsp of vanilla extract or 1/2 tbsp (1 packet) of vanilla sugar
200g of flour
1/4 tsp of baking powder
1/8 tsp of baking soda
1 pinch of salt
1 egg
50g of peanut butter
100g of unsalted peanuts, chopped

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

Put the butter, light brown sugar, white sugar (and vanilla sugar if using) in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat until the butter has completely melted. Set aside.

In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Add the egg and peanut butter to the butter/sugar mix. Add in vanilla extract if using. Mix until well incorporated.

While stirring, add in the dry ingredients, then stir in about 3/4 of the chopped unsalted peanuts.

Press the dough into a square 8x8in (20cmx20cm) pan, lined with baking paper. Sprinkle the remaining chopped peanuts onto the dough, and lightly press them in.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool before cutting into squares.

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Chocolate Chip Nutella Oat Bars

These oat crumble bars have a hidden Nutella layer and are topped with chocolate chips to make them extra delicious.

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To make these chocolate chip Nutella oat bars, I used the same recipe as these applesauce oatmeal bars and these banana oat bars. This time, though, no fruit ! The applesauce or bananas are replaced with Nutella, and the bars are topped with chocolate chips.

This recipe for Nutella oatmeal bars is egg-free (and you'll only need to wash one bowl when you're done making them !)


To make chocolate chip Nutella oat bars, you'll have to combine the dry ingredients (flour, brown sugar, oats, baking powder and salt), before you add in softened butter and mix until it forms crumbs.
Spread a little over half the dough in a pan, press with your fingers to make a base, and bake for 15 minutes.
Take the pan out of the oven and spread some Nutella on it (I'd recommend microwaving it for about 15 seconds to make it softer and easier to spread). Add the remaining crumbs on top, the chocolate chips, and bake for another 35 minutes.
Let the chocolate chips Nutella oatmeal bars cool completely before cutting into squares.

You may like these recipes :
Applesauce Oat Bars
Banana Oat Bars
Nutella Christmas Tree Pastry


Here's the recipe for chocolate chip Nutella oat bars :

CHOCOLATE CHIP NUTELLA OAT BARS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

These oat crumble bars have a hidden Nutella layer and are topped with chocolate chips to make them extra delicious. One bowl, egg-free.

Cook time : 50 minutes
12 servings

Ingredients :
190g of flour
150g of light brown sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
140g of rolled oats
175g of butter, softened
Nutella
2 tbsp of chocolate chips

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and oats.

Add in the butter and combine (using your fingers) until it forms crumbs.

In an 8x8in (20x20cm) pan covered in baking paper, spread a little over half of the mixture, and flatten it (using the bottom of a glass or your fingers) to form the base of the Nutella bars. Bake for 15 minutes.

Take the pan out of the oven, spread Nutella (I used about 4 or 5 tablespoons) on the base, and sprinkle the rest of the mixture on top. Add the chocolate chips

Bake for 35 minutes (at 150/180°C).

Let cool completely before cutting into bars.

Let me know in the comments if you make these chocolate chip Nutella oat bars ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Gingerbread Snickerdoodles

This snickerdoodles recipe uses gingerbread sugar for the coating instead of the typical cinnamon sugar. Baking soda and cream of tartar free.

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This snickerdoodles recipe uses gingerbread sugar for the coating instead of the typical cinnamon sugar. I used my go-to snickerdoodles recipe, which is baking soda free and cream of tartar free - and yes, the snickerdoodles still stay soft !

To make the gingerbread sugar coating, you'll need a gingerbread spice mix (either store-bought or homemade - there are plenty of recipes online !). Once you have your gingerbread spice mix, the recipe is the same as any other snickerdoodles recipe : whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar, add in the egg and vanilla, then stir in the dry ingredients. Shape the dough into balls, roll in the gingerbread sugar, bake for 12 to 15 minutes, and tada ! You have gingerbread snickerdoodles ! These cookies will be perfect for the Holidays.


Here's the recipe for gingerbread snickerdoodles :

GINGERBREAD SNICKERDOODLES
by A Cup Of Sprinkles

This snickerdoodles recipe uses gingerbread sugar for the coating instead of the typical cinnamon sugar. Baking soda and cream of tartar free.

Cook time : 12 minutes
Makes 10 cookies

Ingredients :
180g of flour
1/4 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
110g of softened butter
150g of sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
For the cinnamon sugar coating :
3 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp of gingerbread spice mix

Instructions :

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Mix in the egg and vanilla extract.

Slowly add in the dry ingredients.

Put the cookie dough in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Preheat the oven.

In a small bowl, make the gingerbread coating : mix the sugar and gingerbread spices together.

Using an ice cream scoop or spoons, form balls with the cookie dough, and roll them in the gingerbread coating.

Put the cookie dough balls on a baking paper covered baking sheet, making sure not to put them too close together as the snickerdoodles will spread as they bake.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes (180°C/350°F), until the edges on the snickerdoodles are golden.

Let me know in the comments if you make these gingerbread snickerdoodles ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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5 Cookie Recipes for Christmas

Here are 5 easy cookie recipes for Christmas ! From the best ever chocolate chip cookies to almond sablés, you'll be sure to find the perfect cookie treat to leave for Santa !

If I had to choose only one thing I love doing in December, it would be baking cookies. Cookies are so easy and quick to make, and there are so many different types ! Chocolate chip cookies (milk, dark, or white), double chocolate cookies, snickerdoodles, sablés (sugar cookies), the list goes on ! In this post, you'll find five easy Christmas cookie recipes to try this month.



1. ALMOND SABLÉS (Almond Shortbread Cookies)

These buttery sablés (French shortbread cookies) are made using ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract to take the almond flavor up a notch. Only four ingredients and no eggs required ! Use a star shaped cookie cutter to make these more festive !



2. DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Soft double chocolate cookies are made with white chocolate chips folded into a dark chocolate cookie base.



3. SNICKERDOODLES (Baking soda and cream of tartar free)

Want to make delicious cinnamon cookies that stay soft ? This Snickerdoodles recipe uses only baking powder, no baking soda and no cream of tartar involved !



4. CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW COOKIES

These chocolate cookies are topped with mini marshmallows : they're a hot chocolate in cookie form and perfect for Christmas !



5. THE BEST EVER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. I've used it for years and it makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever. These are the ones that get left out for Santa every year ! ;)

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Let me know in the comments if you try one of these cookie recipes for Christmas ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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Nougat Cream White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nougat cream white chocolate chip cookies – Chewy white chocolate chip cookies with a nougat cream cookie base.

Lire la recette des cookies à la crème de nougat et aux pépites de chocolat blanc en Français

I based this easy recipe for nougat cream white chocolate chip cookies on my best chocolate chip cookies ever recipe. These cookies had been on my mind for a while, and with Autumn here I finally decided that it was time to try them out. They turned out perfect ! The nougat cream adds a nutty flavor to the cookies, and the white chocolate chips are a nice addition to these chewy cookies.

I actually cut up a block of white baking chocolate to make chocolate chunks – as I said in my chocolate chip cookie recipe post, that's what I always do. You get more chocolate per cookie bite, and it's cheaper. Win win !
You can find nougat cream on Amazon in the US. You can also use nougat cream to make nougat cream cookie slices.


To make these white chocolate chip nougat cream cookies, you have to start by creaming the softened butter and nougat cream, then mix in the sugar. Add in the egg and vanilla extract, then slowly mix in the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder) before you add in the white chocolate chips. You can bake the cookies right away, or keep the dough in the fridge to bake later. Bake for 12 minutes, until the edges are a nice golden color.

This recipe makes about 15 cookies (I use an ice cream scoop to make the cookie dough balls). The cookies will keep for up to a week in an airtight container.


You may also like :

The best chocolate chip cookie recipe

Nougat cream cookie bars

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Here's how to make nougat cream white chocolate chip cookies :

NOUGAT CREAM WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
by A Cup Of Sprinkles

Nougat cream white chocolate chip cookies – Chewy white chocolate chip cookies with a nougat cream cookie base.

Cook time : 12 minutes
15 Cookies

Ingredients :
120g of nougat cream
60g of softened butter
170g of unrefined sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla extract
310g of flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
100g of white chocolate chip or chunks

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

Cream the butter and nougat cream. Mix in the sugar.

Add in the eggs and vanilla extract, mix until well-incorporated.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt, and gradually add them to the cookie dough. Add the white chocolate chips. Mix until well-incorporated.

Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Use spoons or an ice cream scoop to shape cookie dough balls, and place on the baking sheet.

Bake at 150/180°C (TH5/6) for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges of the cookies are a golden color.

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Banana Oat Bars

These oat crumble bars are full of banana flavor and are super easy to make with only a few ingredients !

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This banana oat bars recipe is the same as this applesauce oat bars recipe, only the applesauce has been switched for mashed bananas and banana slices. These banana oat squares are super easy to make, and they only require basic ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, oats, baking powder and salt, and bananas). This oat bar recipe is egg-free.
These oatmeal banana bars will be the perfect after-school snack for Autumn !


To make these banana oat bars, you will need to whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, oats, salt and baking powder), and then add in the softened butter. Combine using your fingers until it forms crumbs. You then have to flatten some of the mixture in a baking pan, and bake for 15 minutes.
Mash a couple of bananas, spread over the bottom of the bars, add banana slices over the mashed bananas, and sprinkle the rest of the oat crumble on top before baking for 35 minutes.
Keep these banana bars in a box for up to a week. I kept mine at room temperature.

You might also like these recipes :
Chocolate Banana Mini-Cakes
Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies
Applesauce Oat Bars


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Here's how to make banana oat bars :

BANANA OAT BARS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

These oat crumble bars are full of banana flavor and are super easy to make with only a few ingredients ! This recipe is egg-free.

Cook time : 50 minutes
16 servings

Ingredients :
190g of flour
150g of sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
150g of rolled oats
175g of butter, softened
3 bananas

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and oats.

Add in the butter and combine (using your fingers) until it forms crumbs.

In an 8x8in (20x20cm) pan covered in baking paper, spread a little over half of the mixture, and flatten it (using the bottom of a glass or your fingers) to form the base of the banana bars. Bake for 15 minutes.

Mash two of the bananas, and slice the third one.

Take the pan out of the oven, spread the mashed bananas on the base, add the banana slices and sprinkle the rest of the mixture on top.

Bake for 35 minutes (at 150/180°C).

Let cool completely before cutting into bars.

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Nougat Cream Cookie Slices

Nougat cream cookies slices are made with a shortbread cookie base, nougat cream and a white chocolate drizzle.

Lire la recette des barres biscuitées à la crème de nougat en Français

I have a giant jar of nougat cream in the pantry. That giant jar of nougat cream will expire soon, so I need to use it up. I looked up recipes online to try and find a way to use nougat cream in a recipe, unfortunately, every dessert recipe either uses actual nougat or they're recipes to make nougat cream (and I already have it so those recipes are useless to me.)

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Top 5 Cookie Recipes

Here are the blog's five most popular ccookies recipes ! From snickerdoodles to almond sablés, check out these easy cookie recipes.

Here's a little round-up of the five most popular cookie recipes on the blog ! Cookies and bars recipes are what I've posted about the most on this little blog, with the most recent cookie recipe being these chocolate chip banana cookies, and the most recent bars recipe was this one for Easter chocolate cookie bars.

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Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies

What could be better than chocolate chip cookies you ask ? Chocolate chip cookies full of banana flavor ! These banana chocolate chip cookies are perfect as a quick and easy snack.

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Maybe I should've named this blog A Cup of Cookies. I do seem to share a lot more cookie recipes than recipes that involve sprinkles, after all. It's just that when it comes to baking, cookies are one of my favorite things to whip up. If I had to list my favorite things in baking, sprinkles and cookies would have to share the first spot. But let's talk about these chocolate chip banana cookies now.
This is another recipe I've used for years. I've made these banana cookies several times to get the perfect (for me anyway) recipe. I wouldn't even be able to tell you which recipe I used to make them in the first place, first because it's been so long I've forgotten, and second because I've changed ingredient measurements.
This is the perfect recipe to make if you want to use up that ripe banana that's been seating on the counter for a week. Now, I call these cookies chocolate chip banana cookies, but I do use chocolate chunks. I've said before in this best ever chocolate chip cookies recipe post that I cut up a block of chocolate to get chunks, because it's cheaper and it's got a way better chocolate to cookie bite ratio ;) You can obviously use either.
Now, don't expect crispy cookies. These banana cookies have a bit of a cake-like texture, and they'll stay soft and moist even after a couple days on the counter. :)


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Here's how to make chocolate chip banana cookies :

CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA COOKIES
by A Cup Of Sprinkles

What could be better than chocolate chip cookies you ask ? Chocolate chip cookies full of banana flavor ! These banana chocolate chip cookies are perfect as a quick and easy snack.

Cook time : 10 minutes
10-12 cookies

Ingredients :
180g of flour
1/8 tsp of salt
1 tsp of baking powder
75g of butter, softened
120g of light brown sugar
1 ripe banana, mashed
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla extract
100g of chocolate chips

Instructions :

Preheat the oven.

Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.

In an another bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Mix in the egg, mashed banana, and the vanilla extract.

Add in the dry ingredients and chocolate chip. Mix until everything is incorporated.

Using spoons or an ice cream scoop, form cookie dough balls on a baking paper covered baking sheet, making sure to space them out as the cookies will spread when baking.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes (150°C/180°C), until the edges are a golden color.

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Easter Chocolate Cookie Bars

Save up your Easter eggs to make these Easter chocolate cookie bars ! These chewy bars are made with 6 basic ingredients and as much chocolate as your heart desires.

Easter is coming ! I’ve got a recipe for you to use up your extra Easter chocolate : easter eggs cookie bars.

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Applesauce Oat Bars

Applesauce oat bars are very easy to make. They'll be perfect as an afternoon snack or for breakfast.

Random cravings are weird. I saw the box of rolled oats in the baking cupboard and instantly wanted applesauce oatmeal squares. Having never actually made oat bars before, I went looking for a recipe and found this one that originally uses strawberry jam. I wanted applesauce though, so I used applesauce for my oat bars (but I'll have to try it with jam because yum).
These applesauce oat bars are very easy to make (and they'll be even easier to eat). They're perfect as an afternoon snack or for breakfast : they are very filling ! They only require basic ingredients and one bowl (less dishes to wash – yay !). This recipe for applesauce oat bars is also egg-free.

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Palets de Dame (French Cookies)

Palets de Dame are a specialty from Northern France. These cake-like cookies with a rum icing require only basic ingredients.

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And another recipe from Northern France ! After tarte au sucre and coquille de Noël, let me introduce you to palets de dame.
These cookies, just like tarte au sucre, are linked to my childhood. I remember the exact taste that the palets de dame we bought (from the same bakery we bought tarte au sucre from) had. I read a lot of recipes, before finding this one. Some had ground almonds, some said to spread a layer of apricot preserves between the cookie and the icing. I don't remember the ones I ate as a child to have had an apricot preserves layer, so I didn't write those down.

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Chocolate Dipped Heart Cookies

These chocolate dipped heart-shaped sablés will be perfect as a Valentine's Day treat !

I’m not even going to call this a recipe. This is more of an idea for a quick and easy Valentine’s Day treat : chocolate dipped heart-shaped sablés.

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Almond Sablés (Almond Shortbread Cookies)

These buttery sablés (French shortbread cookies) are made using ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract to take the almond flavor up a notch. Only four ingredients and no eggs required !

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I've had a bag of ground almonds in the cupboard for months now ; I received it in the Vahiné box I won last Spring (which also had the chocolate caramel chips I used for these brown butter cookies). I've been wondering what to bake with the powdered almonds ever since, and I finally got around to using them (and no, they thankfully weren't expired, ha !).

I made almond sablés ! Sablés are the French version of shortbread cookies : think roll-out sugar cookies, but more crumbly. These almond sablés only require four ingredients, and they're made without eggs ! These almond cookies are buttery and out-of-this-world delicious, believe me. I added just a couple of drops of almond extract to kick the almond flavor up a notch, but that's optional as the ground almonds already give that amazing almond taste to the sablés.

If you're making these almond shortbread cookies, here's an important piece of advice : don't overbake them ! For me, 10 minutes in a preheated oven were enough ; the almond sablés will definitely look like they aren't fully baked, but that's how you keep them soft for days. If you bake them until they look, well, baked, they'll just become rock-hard as they cool, and that's not what we want. We want soft crumbly almond cookies, not break-your-teeth-hard cookies.

Are you going to try them or do you still need convincing ? If you still need convincing, here goes : my little brother was the first one to taste them and he kept saying they were really good, so delicious, can I have more ? Haha ! Oh, and also : do you know how hard it is to look at the pictures I took of the almond sablés, craving one (or four) but knowing they're all gone ? It's torture. I just had lunch but I'm hungry now :(


Here's how to make these almond sablés (or shortbread) :

ALMOND SABLÉS
by A Cup Of Sprinkles
Adapted from La Mère Pierre

These buttery sablés (French shortbread cookies) are made using ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract to take the almond flavor up a notch. Only four ingredients and no eggs required !

Cook time : 10 minutes

Ingredients :
300g of flour
230g of butter, softened
100g of sugar
125g of ground almonds
Almond extract (optional)

Instructions :

Whisk together the flour and sugar. Cream the butter

Gradually mix the flour/sugar to the butter.

Add in the ground almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract and knead until everything is incorporated. The dough will look very crumbly but it will come together the more you mix it.

Cover the dough with cling wrap and chill in the fridge for an hour.

Preheat the oven.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface using a rolling pin (about 5mm/¼ inch thick) and cut out shapes using cookie cutters. Place the cookies on a baking paper covered baking sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes (300°F/150°C). Don’t overbake (the cookies wouldn’t stay soft as they cool) ! The edges on the cookies should barely look golden. The cookies will harden as they cool.

Let me know in the comments if you make these ground almond cookies ! You can also share a picture on Instagram by tagging @acupofsprinkles and using the hashtag #acupofsprinkles !

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