And the result is a moist, luscious red velvet cookie bar topped in a cream cheese frosting that is futile to resist. This dessert is the perfect recipe to make for your 4th of July celebrationsChewy red velvet cookie bars smothered in a sweet, tangy cream cheese frosting. These bars are so easy to make since they start with a cake mixRich, chewy, and delicious, these gingerbread cookie bars are the perfect holiday treat Tis the season for lots of bakingfa la la la laEnjoy Yield 9 large bars. Prep Time 1. 0 minutes. Cook Time 2. 0 minutes. Total Time 6. 0 minutes including coolingChewy red velvet cookie bars smothered in a sweet, tangy cream cheese frosting. These bars are so easy to make since they start with a cake mix Ingredients For the Cookie Bars 1. JUST the dry mix2 eggs. For the Cream Cheese Frosting 4 ounces cream cheese, softened. Directions Preheat oven to 3. F. Mix the cake mix, eggs, oil, and flour until dough forms. Press the dough into a lightly greased 9x. Bake for 2. 0 minutes be careful not to overbake, or it will dry out. Let cool for at least 3. Make the frosting use and electric mixer to beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla. Spread frosting over the cooled bars. Add sprinkles if desired. About the author. Creme Fraiche. Ashton Swank. Ashton is the owner and author of Something Swanky. Although first and foremost a wife and mother, she considers herself an online entrepreneur, freelance writer and photographer, and brand ambassador. Her focus is in food styling, food photography and recipe development. The Best Cookie Dough Frosting. My daughter loves cookie dough anything. Cookie dough ice cream, cookie dough frozen yogurt, and if I would let her real raw cookie dough. She went to a birthday party where the cupcakes had cookie dough frosting on them and now thats all she talks about. While I love real cookie dough dont judge Laurie and I were raised in an era where raw eggs were okay to eat, the idea of cookie dough frosting does not appeal to me. Because Allison was so insistent on having cookie dough frosting, I scoured Pinterest for a good recipe. The first was WAY too sweet, the second recipe we tired had cream cheese in it so the taste was off putting to us, the third one was basically cookie dough without eggs. I knowwe sound like Goldilocks, Laurie and I put our heads together and came up with this recipe. Its a hybrid of the different recipes we found and it was just right And my daughter LOVED it so we all lived happily ever after. You will need 1 cup 2 sticks Butter. Brown Sugar. 1 cup Powdered Sugar. Flour. 2 tsp Vanilla. Salt. 4 tbsp 14 cup Milk for desired consistency34 1 cup of Mini Chocolate Chips depending on how chippy you want itDecorating Bags. Wilton 2. D Decorating Tip. Mixer. Cream the brown sugar, powdered sugar and softened butter on low in a mixer. Add the flour and the vanilla and mix on medium speed until the frosting is creamy and the flour is thoroughly incorporated. Slowly add the milk until the frosting is the desired consistency. Add Mini Chocolate Chips to taste. Mix the chocolate chips into the frosting with a spoon. If the frosting is too thick add a tiny bit more milk. How much frosting will you needThat always depends on how thick or thin you apply the frosting or how much decorating you do but here are a couple of guidelines. Our recipe should make enough Best Cookie Dough Frosting to cover a 9 x 1. If you are making cupcakes, you should be able to frost 2. If you swirl on the frosting with a pastry bag like we have done here, you should be able to frost 1. There is no getting around the fact that this Best Cookie Dough Frosting is very sweet. But if you want Cookie Dough Frosting on your cupcake or cake then we are guessing that sweet is your thing. What we like about our version of this frosting recipe is that it still has a buttercream frosting taste plus a bit of the brown sugarflour taste of chocolate chip cookie dough. Give it a try and let us know what you think. By the way, this recipe would also be great as an eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip which is something we see all the time on Pinterest. P. S. Lets stay in touch If you liked our The Best Cookie Dough Frosting post, click here to sign up for our Email Newsletter Or follow us on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram More Great Frosting Recipes If you want to stay up to date on all our Frosting posts, Follow Two Sisters Crafting on Pinterest Follow Two Sisters Craftings Frosting board on Pinterest. The Best Cookie Dough Frosting was last modified September 6th, 2. Two Sisters Crafting.