Rainbow Cookie Bars

  • Prep 30 min
  • Total 1 hr 25 min
  • Servings 12

Ingredients

  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Fluffy White Frosting
  • 1 small gold foil baking cup for "pot of gold"
  • 25 small yellow or gold jelly beans to fill "pot of gold"
  • Jelly beans for rainbow (25 to 55 each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)

Steps

  • 1
    Heat oven to 350°F. Line 13x9-inch pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg until soft dough forms. Press dough into pan evenly with floured fingers.
  • 2
    Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until edge is light golden brown. Cool 15 minutes in pan on wire rack. Pick up foil edges and carefully remove cookie from pan to cooling rack; cool 15 minutes. Turn cookie upside down onto another cooling rack; remove foil. Place cookie on large serving platter.
  • 3
    Spread frosting on top and sides of cookie. Place foil baking cup in one corner of cookie; fill with yellow jelly beans. Arrange remaining jelly beans on cookie to look like a rainbow. For 12 bars, cut into 4 rows by 3 rows.

  • Wrap a large piece of cardboard with aluminum foil to use as a serving platter.
  • Use any colored candy for the rainbow and gold foil-wrapped candy for the pot of gold.
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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Bar
Calories
440
Calories from Fat
160
Total Fat
18g
27%
Saturated Fat
7g
37%
Trans Fat
3 1/2g
Cholesterol
40mg
13%
Sodium
220mg
9%
Potassium
50mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate
68g
23%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
43g
Protein
2g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
6%
6%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
4%
4%
Exchanges:
2 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
4 1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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