If you’re looking for an easy dessert to share with others, this is a good one to try. These are delicious, little hand-held bars. There’s nothing fancy about them unless you really want to decorate the tops of them with piped frosting or holiday sprinkles. But they’re always a hit. Everyone likes sugar cookie bars.

The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post. You will need an electric mixer and rimmed half sheet pan. Follow the instructions in the recipe for making the sugar cookie dough. Spray your pan with nonstick spray, and then add the cookie dough to the pan. It’s a very thick cookie dough. So it’s easiest to do this if you spray your (clean) hands with nonstick spray and use them to pat the dough evenly into the pan. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until light golden brown.

The next step is adding the frosting. Follow the directions in the recipe for making the frosting. If you want to add coloring to the frosting, that’s up to you. Spread it onto the cooled sugar cookie bars. Add sprinkles, if you’d like!

Cut the big slab of frosted sugar cookies into bars. It’s easiest to do this if you chill the frosted bars for a bit. You’ll get the cleanest cuts.

They’re a hand-held treat. Or you can display plates for serving. These are decorated as Valentine’s Day sugar cookie bars, but you can certainly make them for any occasion and use any color for the frosting.

They seem like a spring recipe to me. Or something you might like to serve at a baby shower or at a party. Maybe it’s the tinted icing, or maybe it’s the festive sprinkles. In any case, they seem to make people happy. Enjoy!

Here are a few more recipes for sugar cookies that you might like to try:

Crunchy Nutmeg Sugar Cookies Easy Frosted Sugar Cookies Sugar Cookie Truffles Best Sugar Cookies Lemon Sugar Cookies