M&M Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe

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(Makes 16 bars, or some other number if you want.)

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter, softened (equivalent to 1 stick)
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 and 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (equivalent to 7.4 ounces)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup M&Ms

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease an 8 x 8 pan and set it aside.  I like to lay parchment paper or tin foil into the baking pan so that it’s easy to take out for pictures but it’s not required it you just want to cut them out of the pan as you go.
2. In a big bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
3. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix together.
4. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix again.
5. Add in the M&Ms and gently stir everything together.  (* See note below.)
6. Pour the batter into the pan and spread it out evenly.  I mushed mine into the pan with the back of a measuring cup.
7. Bake it in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes or until a tester inserted comes out clean.

* If you want the M&Ms only on the top of the sugar cookie bars like I did today, then skip step 5.  Instead, bake the bars for 10 minutes, take them out of the oven, sprinkle the M&Ms on top, place the bars back in the oven and cook for an additional 10 minutes or until a tester inserted comes out clean.

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