Last week, we had an estate/garage sale at my mom’s house. My kids really wanted to do a lemonade stand for the sale, but it was cold and windy out… not lemonade weather!! I know how much they look forward to setting up a little booth whenever we have a sale so I made them some Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars to sell.
This is the same recipe I used for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake but I doubled it (except for the amount of chocolate chips) so that it would fill a jelly roll size pan and therefore we would have more bars to sell!
Cream the shortening and sugar.
Add the eggs and vanilla.
Add the soda and water, then the dry ingredients and last the chocolate chips.
Bake until golden brown about 20-25 minutes.
Allow the bars to cool before cutting into squares.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
40 mins
Adapted from Nestle.
Course: Dessert
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons water
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups shortening
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 4 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix 2 teaspoons baking soda with 2 teaspoons water and set aside.
- Cream together shortening, granulated sugar and brown sugar.
- Add vanilla, eggs and baking soda/water mix.
- Gradually beat in flour and salt.
- Mix in chocolate chips.
- Spread out in a greased jelly roll pan.
- Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
- Allow them to cool completely before cutting into bars.
Lindsay says
Wow, I should NOT have looked at this tonight–now I must make it. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe, I would really like to try it! You are so great to link all your awesome projects up to Show & Share, I am so glad that you do!
Amanda Anne says
Oh, I can’t wait to try this!Thanks for following me – returning the bloggy
Stephanie @ henry happened says
These look amazing. Your photos are just too perfect! Dang, now I’m hungry.
sherri lynn says
Yum these look delicious! I would love to find a cookie bar stand around here! 🙂
Lindsay @ Delighted Momma says
You are such a cute Momma! I love how involved you are. That’s so great! I bet everyone enjoyed these much more than lemonade 🙂
Meg@MegaCrafty says
Yum-they look so good! This is my hubbies favorite type of cookie. We call them pan cookies.
Anne says
They look really good Tonia. They look really fudgy. I’m thinking that you guys call them bars and we call it a slice. How did the kids go selling them and how was the yard sale? Hope it was a success.Anne xx