 Today I'm sharing a recipe for Loft House sugar cookie bars. I love sugar cookies and this is one of my favorite recipes. So let me show you what you're going to need. For the bar cookie portion you are going to need flour, sugar, vanilla, softened butter, an egg, baking powder and baking soda, cream cheese and then you're going to need some decorations but the sprinkles are absolutely optional and then for the yummy cream cheese icing you're going to need butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, heavy whipping cream and cream cheese. So let's get started. Okay so the first thing that we're going to do is mix together our softened cream cheese and our softened butter and this by the way is unsalted butter and I will make sure as always to leave the recipe in the description box for you all. So let's just mix this up really quickly and now I'm just going to add in my sugar and mix that up and now I'm going to add in my vanilla and my egg and by the way my egg is also at room temperature and just going to give it a good stir or mix I should say. Now I'm going to add in my baking powder and baking soda and my flour and you're just going to make sure that everything is well combined. Okay so I have a 9 by 13 pan here that I have lined with non-stick foil. You could use parchment paper too but I am using non-stick that's just my preference and then I have greased it with a little bit of butter. I've got my oven preheated to 350 degrees so now all I'm going to do is transfer the cookie dough into the pan and spread it out. Now this is going to be really sticky because of that cream cheese but just do the best that you can. Okay I've got my cookie dough all spread out as you can see just do the best that you can it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm going to pop this in the oven for about 20-25 minutes or until it is cooked through. Okay so I just took the cookies out of the oven and I ended up baking them for 27 minutes and let me show you the edges here you can see they're nice and golden brown and that is what you are looking for. So I am going to let these cool completely before I can ice them. Okay so my cookies are completely full now it's time to make the cream cheese icing. So in my bowl I have 8 ounces of softened cream cheese a half a stick of unsalted butter and I am just going to cream this together and now I'm going to add in my vanilla mix that together again and I'm going to add in my powdered sugar just a little bit at a time and at this point if you want your icing a little bit looser you can add just a little bit of heavy whipping cream and that's it for cream cheese icing. So now I'm just going to spread this on my bar cookies. Alright so I lifted my cookies out of the pan and I have it laid out here and now all I'm going to do is ice the cookies so I'm just going to dollop the frosting kind of all over it and then just spread it out. Okay I've got my icing on and I've got quite a bit left in the bowl that I'll find another use for and so now I'm simply just sprinkling my candy my decorations on top of the bars. Okay so I am just going to let this set for I don't know about 15-20 minutes or so and then I am going to cut the bar so you guys can see what the inside looks like. Okay so here are the cookie bars and they are so simple to make so delicious a very tender delicate cookie so they're not crunchy they are soft like a loft house cookie they kind of remind me more of a cake than a cookie so let me show you one close up and they're probably about maybe an inch thick so if you want it thinner then of course you could use a larger pan if you want a thinner cookie but I hope you all enjoyed this video and this recipe if you did it would really help us out if you gave us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel we'd certainly love to have you. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.