Favorite Bar Cookie Recipes and Homemade Squares

Family Favorite Bar Cookie Recipes For The Best Cookie Bars And Homemade Squares Baked In A Pan

They go by lots of names -- bar cookies, cookie bars, pan cookies, squares, brownies, and blondies just to name a few.

No matter what you call them, bar cookies deliver some of the easiest tastiest treats available.

I love cookie bar recipes! Maybe because, as much as I enjoy cooking and baking, I'm a little lazy.

I love baking shortcuts and easy cookie recipes that don't compromise on taste or quality.

So if you're a little lazy like me, or too busy to spend hours on complicated, fancy desserts but still want to enjoy tasty homemade treats, you're going to love these easy family favorite bar cookie recipes. These baked cookie bars are the perfect sweet solution, providing a delicious dessert or sweet treat for minimal investment of time and energy.

The Beauty of Bar Cookies…

With most cookie bars, all you have to do is stir together your ingredients, spread them into a pan, and pop them into a pre-heated oven. Usually, in about 30 minutes, you'll be rewarded with luscious homemade bar cookies that once cooled, are often stored right in the same pan, covered with foil or plastic. They truly are the simplest of cookies because such little tending and handling is required.

The great thing about cookie bars is that there's no forming, shaping, or baking batch after batch, like with drop cookies, formed cookies, and rolled cookies. And the variety of bar cookie recipes is endless. Taking their flavor lead from other homemade desserts like pies, cakes, and quick breads, the perfect bar cookie recipe exists for any craving or occasion. Popular flavor options for cookie bars include lemon, spice, chocolate, carrot, pumpkin, zucchini, peanut butter, butterscotch, raspberry, apple, and coconut.

What's Your Favorite?

So what's your favorite bar cookie? For many it's brownies, the classic example of a bar cookie, and because of that we've dedicated the discussion of brownies to its own page.

But what about non-brownie bar cookies? I have two favorites -- homemade chocolate chip cookie bars (a lunchbox and after school snack staple in our house growing up) and raspberry squares (a delicious combination of flour, oats, brown sugar, and tart raspberry jam) first sampled in Maine years ago.

When you are looking for an easy and delicious baked treat, I hope you will try one of these delicious and easy cookie bar recipes:

Easy Bar Cookie Recipes

• Apple Bars
• Apple Pie Squares
• Banana Bars
• Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
• Carrot Cake Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cranberry Bars Recipe
• Chocolate Chip Pie
• Chocolate Cookie Bars
• Coconut Zucchini Cookie Bars
• Cranberry Bars
• Cranberry Orange Squares
• Cranberry Shortbread Cookies Recipe
• Date Squares
• Grandma's Lemon Squares Recipe
• Granola Bar Recipes
  • ~ Almond Granola Cookie Bars
  • ~ Blueberry and Maple Granola Bars
  • ~ Chewy Apricot Almond Granola Bars
  • ~ Chewy Apricot Granola Bars
  • ~ Chewy, Crunchy, Coconut Granola Bars
  • ~ Easy Granola Bar Recipes
  • ~ Fruity, Nutty, Whole Grain Granola Bars
  • ~ Homemade Granola Bars
  • ~ Low Fat Granola Bars
  • ~ No Bake Almond Bars
  • ~ Nutty Crunchy Granola Bars
• Limoncello Cheesecake Bars
• Lusciously Lemon Bars
• Macadamia Coconut Lemon Bars
• Magic Cookie Bars
• Nana's Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
• Oatmeal Caramel Bars
• Oatmeal Jam Bars
• Oatmeal Raisin Bars
• Peanut Butter Bars
• Pecan Bars
• Pecan Crusted Pumpkin Squares
• Pumpkin Bars
• Pumpkin Squares
• Raspberry Squares
• Rhubarb Squares
• Simple Cranberry Nut Bars Recipe
• Sour Cream Banana Bars