St. Patrick's Day Cake Mix Cookie Bars
St. Patrick's Day Cake Mix Cookie Bars are tinted green, topped with cream cheese frosting and fun rainbow sprinkles for a festive dessert.
Servings 15 bars
Ingredients
Bars
- 1 box vanilla or white cake mix
- 1 box instant vanilla pudding 3.4 ounces - just the powder, don't make the pudding.
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup water
- 2 large eggs
- 20 drops green food coloring
Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese – the brick, not the whipped variety – room temperature
- ½ cup butter 1 stick – room temperature
- 1½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2½ cups confectioner’s sugar
Decorate
- 1/4 cup rainbow sprinkles - jimmies
Instructions
Bars
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9x13 baking dish. Set aside.
- Combine the cake mix, pudding mix, oil, water and eggs in a large bowl. Mix well to combine.
- Spread the mixture out into the prepared dish.
- Bake 22-26 minutes or until set.
- Cool completely before adding the frosting and sprinkles.
Frosting
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese until whipped.
- Add in the butter and beat again until well blended.
- Slowly mix in the vanilla and 1 cup of the confectioner’s sugar until just incorporated.
- Continue adding the sugar, small portions at a time, and mixing until just incorporated.
- Once the sugar is just blended in, increase the speed of the mixer and whip on high for 1-2 minutes to really aerate the frosting and get everything blended well.
- You can then spread the frosting onto a cooled cake or cookies to decorate.