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These soft and chewy Easter Cookie Bars are loaded with pastel chocolate M&M’s and so pretty for any Easter gathering.

top view of Easter cookie bars cut into squares

When you want a quick and easy Easter dessert, these Easter Cookie Bars is a great option. These are sometimes called “blondies” but these bars have more of a chewy cookie texture. Similar to our classic chocolate chip cookies bars.

Quick and Easy – These bars take about 10-15 minutes of prep and only 20 minutes to bake.
Easter Favorite – We make these M&M cookie bars every year for Easter and they are the first thing to go at Easter parties.
Versatile – There are so many additions and variations you can do with these bars with other colored candies or chocolate.

Ingredients Needed

You only need a handfull of simple ingredients.

Butter – I always recommend using unsalted butter, even when you are adding salt to the recipe. When you use unsalted butter you can control the salt content in the recipe.
Brown sugar & Egg
Flavor – you will need pure vanilla extract.
Dry ingredients – All-purpose flour, baking powder and salt.
M&Ms – Any Easter colored M&Ms will work with pastel colors.

Just a few simple steps!

Preheat the oven and prepare the baking dish.
Beat the butter and brown sugar together in a large bowl.
Add the egg and vanilla and mix it well. Next, add the salt and baking powder. Stir in the flour slowly.
Fold in some of M&Ms and spread the sugar cookie dough batter into the prepared baking sheet.

mixing Easter M&M's into the cookie dough

Bake the cookie bars for 20-22 minutes until the center of the cookie dough is done.
Remove it from the oven and then sprinkle with the remaining M&Ms.
Press them into the bars.
Let them cool completely before cutting.

Variations

Mix-ins – You can add in any candies that you prefer including semi-sweet chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, or colorful sprinkles.

Bunny shape – Press the cookie dough into a Easter bunny shaped pan and bake. Either serve as is or frost the top with vanilla buttercream and decorate into a bunny face!

Frosting options – Consider topping with chocolate buttercream, peanut butter frosting, strawberry cream cheese frosting or cream cheese frosting!

Cake Mix Version – If you have a yellow cake mix and short on time, try our Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars and add your pastel M&M’s into the batter.

Easter cookie dough pressed into a pan before baking

Storing

Store leftover bars at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days. You can also freeze the leftover squares for up to 3 months.

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