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      Title: Blooper Friday! Sugar Cookie Bar Semi-Fail
 Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Desserts
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
      1 c  Unsalted butter; room temperature
      2 c  Sugar
      4 lg Eggs
      1 tb Vanilla
      5 c  Flour
      1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Baking soda
      1 c  M&M candies
 
  The thing about sugar cookie bars is that they are impossible to
  fail. We ran out of time, melted a plastic container, used the
  wrong pan, and didn't fully cook them and they were STILL
  delicious. So unlike other Blooper Fridays, we are actually going
  to show you this recipe.
  
  We first saw the cookie bars at Recipe Girl, complete with
  beautiful, colorful pictures and knew we had to make them. She
  adapted the recipe from The Repressed Pastry Chef, to make her own
  version (<-- that's where you can find the full recipe and see what
  these are supposed to look like). We adapted it a little from hers.
  
  Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  
  Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Add vanilla.
  
  In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to
  wet ingredients.
  
  Add M&Ms, and mix until ingredients look like delicious cookie dough.
  
  Put dough on a jelly roll 13x18" baking sheet.
  
  Here is the first step we did incorrectly (FAIL! #1). Apparently,
  you are supposed to put the dough on a jelly roll baking pan, NOT a
  9x13" cake pan. I thought 13x18" was a typo in the original recipe,
  but no, you want these to be thin.
  
  Bake at 375°F/190°C for 10-15 minutes. The dough will be light
  golden, and a toothpick in the middle will come clean.
  
  If you bake these in a 13x9" pan, they take a lot longer and still
  may not be fully baked.
  
  Allow to cool completely before icing.
  
  We cut them up because we wanted them to cool faster. As we saw
  they were not fully cooked. (FAIL! #2)
  
  After it took over 30 minutes to bake these extra thick bars, we
  decided to just go with a jar of icing (no home made icing = FAIL!
  #3).
  
  We happened to have 1/2 of one left in the fridge. So, we thought
  it would warm up a little quicker if we put the jar above the oven.
  Oh, it definitely warmed up!
  
  Luckily, the melted plastic did not actually get in the icing so we
  were able to use it. At this point, we were already running late
  for a party, so we are glad it worked out.
  
  However, they weren't exactly the prettiest sugar cookie bars.
  
  They were goopy, melty, and messy - but they were still delicious.
  We will definitely be making them again, hopefully without all the
  drama and mess.
  
  From: http://castlefarmcookbook.blogspot.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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