Snickerdoodle Bars

Hello (imaginary) friends!

Happy Monday to all of you lovely people. I hope that your weekend was fantastic! :)

Anyway, I have a new recipe for you. Yay! They're called Snickerdoodle Bars! (Now, for those of you who are not Minnesotan, you may be wondering what a "bar" is. A bar is a traditional dessert and there are a variety of recipes. You have lemon bars, raspberry bars, cookie bars, etc. It's a lot easier than making cookies or something that has to be made individually. So, long story short, a bar is a dessert that is put in a large pan to cook and then cut into squares to be served. They're delicious.)

I found this recipe and it's really yummy, but way, WAY too sweet for my taste (and I have a huge sweet-tooth). So I had to do some adjusting to it. I'm hoping that this works for ya, so keep me posted about how it goes and any suggestions you would make to it.

Ingredients
Bar 

• 1 1/2 cups of butter (softened) 
• 1 cup of brown sugar 
• 1/2 cup of white sugar 
• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt 
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder 
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract 
• 1 teaspoon of nutmeg (optional) 
• 2 2/3 cups of flour 

Topping

• 1/8 cup of white sugar 
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon 

Directions
Bar

1. Cream butter and sugars in a large mixing bowl. 
2. Add eggs, salt, vanilla, and nutmeg into the bowl and mix well. 
3. Add in the baking powder and mix.
4. Gently add in the flour, a little at a time and continue to mix well. 
5. Put dough in a 9x13 greased pan. (You may have to spread it out with your spoon and/or hands to make sure that it covers the entire pan. Don't be afraid to press it down as well if that means that it'll be even.) 
6. Sprinkle the sugar mixture over the bars. 
7. Put them into the oven at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. 
8. Le them cool before cutting them. 

Topping

1. Put both sugar and cinnamon into a Tupperware container (with a lid) and shake it. This makes combining the two together a whole lot easier.  
2. Sprinkle over the bars before they go into the oven. (You may have to shake the pan in order to get a nice, even coating, too.) 

Notes

• If you do enjoy the subtle nutmeg flavor in your snickerdoodle cookies, feel free to add it to the bars. I didn't put any in the bars I made because I forgot...Ooooppps.
• I accidentally used baking SODA instead of baking POWDER. My bars ended up raising in the oven and I had a slight panic attack, but then they fell when cooled down. The result was that it was a little more fluffy than the bar I was expecting and had more of a cake texture to it rather than a cookie. 
• One thing I want to try to do is put some of the topping mixture onto the bottom of greased pan. It would make it more like a traditional snickerdoodle. 

That's all I got for you, friends! Lemme know what you think! Enjoy! 

Love, 

Katie