Candy Cane Kiss Sugar Cookie Barso
My friend Janessa stopped by a few days ago with a whole platter of Christmas treats. If you want to make me happy, that is definitely the way. Making treats for my own neighbors and friends is a tradition I do every year. I’ve found that the sugar cookies are always popular and always the first to go.
As much as I love sugar cookies, I hate rolling those suckers out. These Hershey’s Candy Cane Kiss Cookie Bars have little specks of white chocolate and peppermint candy cane kisses throughout and are topped with a cream cheese frosting.
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Once again all of my friends have stepped up their game with some gorgeous treats. We have treats using Hershey’s Kisses Chocolate and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups which are two of my absolute favorites.
I’m sure finding a helper to unwrap all of those kisses won’t be a problem.
Candy Cane Kiss Sugar Cookie Bars
Ingredients
Bars:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped Hershey's candy cane kisses, about 45 kisses
Frosting:
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2-3 Tablespoons milk
- optional finely chopped Hershey's candy cane kisses
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a 9x13 baking dish with parchment paper or spray it with cooking spray.
- For the bars: In a large bowl beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.
- In a separate bowl whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt until combined.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and mix until combined.
- Gently fold in the chopped Hershey kisses.
- Press dough into the baking dish and bake for 18-20 minutes or until edges begin to have a touch of golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let the bars cool in the pan.
- For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until creamy. The mixture may seem dry at first but will become creamy after being beat for a while. Add a tablespoon of milk at a time until the frosting reaches the consistency you desire. Frost cooled bars. Sprinkle with additional chopped candy cane kisses.
Notes
Don’t forget to check out these other treats:
Could these be doubled and baked in a 12×18″ sheet pan?
Can these be frozen?
Yes!
Approximately how many do you get from one 9×13 pan?
About 18-24 depending how big you cut them.
These are delicious! I used Andes white chocolate peppermint pieces instead because the kisses were hard to chop.
These look amazing (:
Hi,
I love all your recipes but I can’t print any of them off. Is there an answer for this. Thank you and hoping to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Brenda
Brenda,
What browser are you using? I use a ziplist plugin and although I can print from Internet Explorer I’ve had users that can’t. You can try using Firefox or another browser. Sorry!
hi, I’d love to make these more than just at Christmas. any ideas for a substitute for the candy cane kisses? thanks!
You can leave it out and just frost them. Or you could use any kind of chip, maybe white chocolate chips?
I made these for a Christmas gathering and they were awesome, they were so addicting and I loved them with coffee the next morning.
Ooh! Great to hear!
I made the Candy Cane Kiss Sugar Cookie Bars and they were delicious! Everyone really liked them.
Look yummy, will be making tonight. Do they need to be put in fridge with cream cheese frosting, or are they ok at room temp?
I stored mine at room temperature. I’ve heard that if there’s sugar in the frosting it acts as a preserver and can be left at room temp.
I also love sugar cookies but hate rolling them out! Will have to try this asap!
I am eager to try these. Do you think they would freeze ok (minus the frosting)? I would like to get some baking done ahead of time. Thanks!
Sugar cookie bars freeze great!!
Lovely! The peppermint kisses are my favorite!
These are so fun and festive! I love the peppermint kisses too, yum! And I’m definitely in for a bar over rolling out all the cookies 🙂
Some days I just don’t want to roll out the sugar cookies…this looks like the way to go for sure! I love all the candy cane kisses in these! They look amazing!
So fun and festive! Great way to enjoy sugar cookies without going through all the work of rolling them out!
These look so fun and festive! Thanks for sharing 🙂
These look amazing! One thing I love about baking this time of year is the festive mood it puts you in, who doesn’t love baking (or receiving ) Christmas treats?!
What a lovely and festive treat! I would have a hard time having just one 😉
How fun! My son loves helping unwrap Kisses for recipes!
Could you please link your friends’ recipes to this page as well? They all look so yummy
Yes, the links weren’t working this morning but now they are at the bottom of the post…
These are so cute and festive!!! LOVE.
These look so yummy and delicious! Sweet treats are definitely the way to my heart.