St. Patrick's Day Cookie Bars - A delicious chocolate chip cookie bar adorned with green and yellow m&m's to give a little festive flare.
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Are These Cookie Bars The Same As The Christmas Cookie Bars?
Short answer, yes. Read on.
Last Christmas, I baked up a simple Christmas m&m Cookie Bar and my family LOVED them. Apparently you did too because the page views on that recipe were out of this world.
Because they were so easy, I decided, what the heck, why not make the same exact cookie bar but mix up the colors to serve on St. Patrick's Day.
I used green m&ms all through the cookie bar but then just before baking I added about 16 yellow m&ms and spaced them out to where I thought it would end up with 1 yellow m&m per bar. The yellow is my ode to a pot 'o gold. Too corny? Corny is my specialty.
Moving along.
Related: 20 Best St. Patrick's Day Dessert by Parade.com
A lot of the St. Patrick's Day cookies and cookie bar recipes I see out there are sugar cookie based. My family prefers a chocolate chip cookie over a sugar cookie which is why I stick with this recipe.
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day
No, you don't have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I mean, I am like 25% Irish but I do nothing that is authentically Irish for St. Patrick's Day. I will celebrate the Americanized way by cooking a corned beef and cabbage dinner, St. Patrick's Day Brownies, these festive m&m St. Patrick's Day Cookie Bars and we'll go to a parade. Heck, maybe I'll drink a green beer or a Guinness.
For easy clean up, I use the disposable baking pans. This one had a bit of a scalloped edge in case you're wondering why the weird shape on some of them.
Anyway, enjoy!
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St. Patrick's Day Cookie Bar Notes:
- If miniature m&ms are not available, use normal size and increase the amount to ¾ cup
- 9x13 baking pan works best
- add a few green sprinkles to the just when coming out of the oven for an extra pop of color
Be sure to print or bookmark this m&m cookie bar recipe because you can easily customize it for any event simply by changing up the candy colors!
St. Patrick's Day Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 2 C flour all purpose
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 10 T butter melted
- 1 C brown sugar
- ½ C sugar granulated
- 1 egg
- 1 C chocolate chips semi-sweet
- ¼ C mini m&ms green
- 16 yellow m&m's optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 and prepare a 12 ¼ x 8 ¼ baking pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
- Using either a stand mixer or a hand mixer, mix together melted butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Add in egg and extract and mix again until smooth. Continue to mix, adding in the flour, a little at a time until combined well.
- Fold in chocolate chips and green m&ms.
- Press the mixture into prepared pan. If desired, press the yellow m&ms on to the surface of mixture.
- Bake 25-30 minutes until lightly browned at the edges(they may look not done but they are). I have found that 27 minutes works perfectly for my oven. Allow to cool before cutting and serving.
Tracie says
St Patricks Day is my birthday! I wish I had someone to make these for me. They would be a hit at my party I'm sure!
Jolina says
I don't blame them. I'd dig right in immediately into these as well! I love recipes that you can tweak according to the season. And these are so appropriate for St. Patrick's Day!
Nicole Anderson | Camping for Women says
I love the analogy of sharks circling! So true. And why wouldn't they be keen? They look great. Will have to give these a go and see how they turn out.
Tami says
These will be the perfect project for me to do with my little guy. We will have as much fun making them as we will eating them.
Brandy says
I love St. Patrick's Day so I am super excited to see this recipe idea. I have to get the ingredients and see if the trio will make this with me in a couple of weeks 🙂
Heather Johnson says
What an adorable cookie bar idea for St. Patrick's Day! I love the colors, and my kids would love these bars too!
Crystal says
My niece's birthday is St. Patrick's Day. Such a fun day to celebrate. I love finding themed recipes for her.
Janella Panchamsingh says
yum cookie bars are the best. my kids love st paddys day so I will definitely make these for them.