Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful evening with your valentine's. Tonight Danny and I shared these red velvet cookie bars as our dessert. They're not only festive (hence the red coloring) but also extremely decadent and delicious. Not to mention- really easy to mix up. You can have these ready to go in under an hour!
What you need for the cookie bars:
1 roll of refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough, room temperature*
1 box red velvet cake mix
2 eggs, room temperature*
2/3 cup melted butter (about 10 and a 1/2 tablespoons)
1 tub vanilla frosting or powdered sugar (optional)
*I took my cookie dough and eggs out about an hour before I was ready to make this.
To make the cookie bars:
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 8x8 inch baking pan.
2. Using your fingers, press cookie dough evenly into the bottom of your prepared baking dish.
3. Bake the cookie dough for 10 minutes.
4. Remove cookie crust from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
5. While cookie crust cools down a bit, prepare your cake mix by combining red velvet cake mix with melted butter and eggs. I used a whisk and mixed for about a minute until the cake mix is fully incorporated and batter is thick. (It will be thick.)
6. Spread cake batter on top of semi-baked cookie and place back in the oven for another 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Once the bars have cooled completely, frost with vanilla frost or dust with powdered sugar. Cut into squares and share with your favorite valentine! :)
ENJOY!
