{"id":11263,"date":"2018-10-15T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:58:04","slug":"halloween-cookie-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/2018\/10\/15\/halloween-cookie-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Cookie Bars!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spooky and terrifyingly tasty halloween cookie bars with a black cookie dough, and stuffed with chocolate halloween M&Ms!<\/h2>\n

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Halloween<\/h3>\n

It’s October, it’s nearly Halloween… and I have been a bit poor on the Halloween scale so far this year. I’ve been so busy I have barely had the time, but I thought I would do something quick, easy and deliciously spooky for you guys to bake for the kids, or just because you’re craving cookies!<\/p>\n

I have my pumpkin spice cookies<\/a>, or even many halloween cakes such as my Halloween drip cake<\/a>, or even my slime cupcakes<\/a>.. but I know, there’s something about cookie bars that are just super easy and a go-to bake. <\/p>\n

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Cookie Bars<\/h3>\n

This recipe is basically a copy of my M&M cookie bars<\/a> because I just adore M&Ms, and they bake so well for cookies. Personally, I find that Smarties lose their colour quite a bit… and in general, I prefer M&Ms anyway. Are you the same?! Smarties or M&Ms? I feel like there is quite a divide on the internet about this!<\/p>\n

Cookie bars are literally a recipe for cookie dough, just baked into a 9″ square tin<\/a> instead of individual cookies. This makes it easier as you can just whack the mix into the tin, and portion how you like. <\/p>\n

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M&Ms<\/h3>\n

I went to London to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child recently, and if you go to Soho\/Leicester Square quite often you’ll know that M&M world is there… and I couldn’t resist it. I bought all the themed chocolate sweets I could afford. That’s a bit of a lie, I just didn’t want to spend toooooo much as it would be a bit ridiculous.<\/p>\n

When you go downstairs in M&M world, you basically find a GIANT pic’n’mix of M&Ms and it just looks amazing as well. All the colours perfectly separated, or themed ones dotted about… and I bought some Halloween ones just for these. They were mainly orange, a few yellow, and then some black\/brown ones.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you can’t go to an M&M world so casually, you will probably just have to pick out the colours from regular packets. It’s no bad thing, just eat the rest! <\/p>\n

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Cookie Dough <\/h3>\n

I thought, why not make the actual cookie black? Like to really contrast with the orange and yellow. I realise some people can get a bit funny about using food colouring, but when you use really good quality food colouring, it doesn’t matter even nearly as much because you use so little. I 100% recommend the Sugarflair Extra Black<\/a>, as I just used half a teaspoon, and it made the bake completely black.<\/p>\n

I haven’t personally ever coloured fondant black, as I usually just buy it, but for buttercreams, macarons etc, this Sugarflair Extra Black<\/a>, is ideal. It really is insane. You can see from the pictures just how well it worked, and I am obsessed. The actual cookie bars don’t taste any different, they just taste deeeelightful and I am obsessed with cookie bars as you may know.<\/p>\n

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Baking <\/h3>\n

I personally bake these for 17\/18 minutes because I like them to be quite gooey. The longer you bake, the dryer they will be. I’ve had people ask questions in the past about why their cookie bars are dry, and it literally is just overbaked.<\/p>\n

If you use a different tin size, it can affect the bake, but keep an eye! These don’t really matter so much if they’re ‘underdone’ because they continue to bake when cooling! Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Halloween Cookie Bars!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Spooky and terrifyingly tasty halloween cookie bars with a black cookie dough, and stuffed with chocolate halloween M&Ms!<\/span><\/div>\n