A Snickerdoodle cookie was one of my favorites when I was a kid, so when I saw this recipe for Snickerdoodle BARS I just had to give it a try. (Because everybody knows making bars is easier and much less time consuming than making cookies.)
I found this recipe SOMEWHERE online. I would love to give credit where credit is due…but I surfed the web on so many cooking sites I can’t find my way back to the site!
It’s an easy recipe to throw together, and that’s another plus in my book.
SNICKERDOODLE BARS
2 1/2 C. flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 sticks butter (That’s 1 Cup Total)
1 1/2 C. white sugar
1/2 C. brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 2 T. white sugar-combined
Mix softened butter with white and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Stir in flour and baking powder. Mix well.
Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray. Spread HALF the batter in the baking pan. Top that layer with most of the cinnamon sugar mixture, then spread the remaining batter over that layer. Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture over the top.
Bake at 350 degrees for approx 25 minutes.
Cool completely. Then drizzle with…
GLAZE
1 1/2 C. powdered sugar
3 T. milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
Just mix up the batter as you would for any cake, but here is the only catch. Only spread HALF of the batter into your 9 x 13 inch cake pan, and spread that mixture evenly over the bottom of the pan. You’ll be making two layers of batter with a cinnamon and sugar mixture layered in between and on top.
Meemaw’s Tip: Use an offset spatula if you have one, and spray that spatula with cooking spray before trying to spread the batter It will make it so much easier to spread!
So here is HALF of the mixture in the pan.
Next, sprinkle half of the sugar and cinnamon mixture over the batter.
Really. It’s amazing how the smell of something baking in the oven can whittle sixty years off of my life. I’m suddenly six again…pulling a kitchen chair up to our formica table and reaching for one of Mom’s warm Snickerdoodle cookies. And those cookies were a perfect compliment to an icy cold glass of milk…just like these Snickerdoodle Bars were today!
Yes…my childhood memories were easy to recreate with this recipe.
And those memories are priceless.
- CAKE INGREDIENTS
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- TOPPING INGREDIENTS
- 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 tblsp. white sugar
- GLAZE INGREDIENTS
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tblsp. milk
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- PREHEAT OVEN TO 350 DEGREES
- Mix softened butter with white and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Stir in the flour and baking powder. Mix well.
- Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray. Spread HALF the batter in the baking pan. Top that layer with most of the cinnamon and sugar topping mixture. Then spread the remaining batter over it. Top that second layer of batter with the remaining cinnamon sugar topping mixture. (You can add more if you like...it's YOUR recipe now!) Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25 minutes...then cool completely.
- GLAZE
- Drizzle the cooled cake with the glaze and cut into squares...
- and be transported back to your childhood!
Hi, how much butter is in a stick. We don’t have butter sticks.
Thanks for your question Marye! I’m so sorry I forgot to clarify this for my Readers “across the pond!” Each “stick” of butter here in America is 1/2 Cup…so this recipe calls for ONE CUP of butter! Thanks again for your question…and let me know how you like these yummy bars.
XOXO
Meemaw
If you want to take these to another level, you would brown the butter and use Vietnamese cinnamon. That is how I make snickerdoodle blondies and they are the best.
Thanks for your suggestions Dynna! I love to hear from Readers who have ways to “tweak” recipes like you have done. Your ideas sound delicious. 🙂
XOXO
Meemaw
I make a recipe that is on pinterest, that calls for browned butter. The only way I really tweaked it, is using very good cinnamon and more of it than the recipe calls for. I greatly enjoy your blog and learn alot from you. Thanks for all you share. xo ?
Thank you so much Dynna! I appreciate your kind words…and I hope you’ll keep reading. I love to share our travels and my recipes and stories with all of you. It means so much when Readers like you take the time to let me know you enjoy my blog!
XOXO
Meemaw
These sound amazing and I love Snickerdoodles so recipe is being printed. I was just cleaning out my freezer and found a couple bags of frozen peaches…Ideas? I am thinking of a cake of some sort with peaches on the bottom kind of like a cobbler…
Thanks Ferne! I make a Peach and Blueberry Crostata…I bet you’d LOVE it…and a crostata is so much easier than a pie! I’ll repost that recipe in the near future. Thanks again for your comment..and for your question!
XOXO
Meemaw 🙂
I have been using vanilla bean paste since I discovered it in any recipe that calls for vanilla. The little flecks of the vanilla beans in your finished pastry just really ups the flavor like crazy. I’m not sure if you have ever used it, but if not, I hope you try it sometime! I will be making these bars this weekend as a thank you to my cousins husband in exchange for him helping me with a big project. Snickerdoodles are his favorite and I know he will love these. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for your comment Patricia! I have not used vanilla bean paste, but I have used whole vanilla bean pods. I will buy some paste and give it a try. MEEMAW’S TIP: If you ever buy real vanilla beans…try this trick. After you scrape out the center to use in your recipe, throw the bean pod itself into a jar with some regular white sugar. Shake the jar and allow that bean pod to sit in the sugar on your shelf for awhile. Then use that vanilla scented sugar in your future baking recipes! Remember my motto…Waste not want not! 🙂
XOXO
Meemaw
A friend of mine proclaims a snickerdoodle is not a snickerdoodle unless there is cream of tartar in the mix. I’ve no idea what she means by that, though. Anyone?
Thanks for your question Dana. I’m with you…I’ve never heard that proclamation either! Maybe one of my readers can clear that up for BOTH of us. 🙂 Stay tuned…
XOXO
Meemaw
LOL! Thanks Kevin and Amish365! No matter WHAT you call these bars…they’re really YUMMY!
XOXOX
Meemaw