Best Melt Away Cookie Bars Recipes

MELTAWAY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, egg yolks, vanilla, and almond extract together
• Add powdered sugar, flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda. Beat well. The dough will appear to be crumbly. Work it with your hands until it forms a ball.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place them on the baking sheet.
• Flatten each ball with your fingers or a flat glass cup. Lightly flour the bottom of the cup if itsticks.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly brown. Allow cooling.
• To prepare the frosting, beat powdered sugar, butter, and milk together. If it is toothick, add a little milk. If it is too thin, add a bit more powdered sugar
• When cookies are cool, frost, add sprinkles, and enjoy!

LEMON MELTAWAYS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream together 3/4 cup butter and 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar until smooth. Stir in 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 1 teaspoon lemon zest. Combine the flour and corn starch, and blend into the lemon mixture to form a soft dough. Divide dough in half, roll each half into a log about 8 inches long and 1 inch in diameter. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours, or until firm.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cut each roll into 1/4 inch slices and place onto the cookie sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 12 minutes, or until set. Cool completely before frosting.
• In a small bowl, blend together 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon lemon zest with an electric mixer until smooth. Frost cookies and allow to dry before serving or storing.

~ CHERRY DREAM MELTAWAYS ~

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degree F. Lightly grease a sheet pan. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the extracts. Mix the salt and flour and add to the butter mixture a little at a time until all is beaten in.
• 2. In a bowl, spoon out preserves and I chop the cherries up with a spoon, just so they aren't left whole.
• 3. Roll in the palm of your hand about 1 inch round balls and place on prepared pan about 1 inch apart. Use your thumb and indent the dough, not clear through, just enough that you can fill each cookie with 1/2 - 3/4 tsp of preserves.
• 4. Bake just until they begin to brown on the bottom, yet are nice and white on the sides and top - about 15 minutes.
• 5. Remove cookies to cooling rack and make the glaze while they cool.
• 6. Whisk together the sugar, almond extract and milk. Take a small baggie and roll down the top, spoon in the glaze and cut a small hole on the one corner. Pipe glaze over each cookie in a swirled motion.
• 7. Dig in, they are delicious!
• 8. Original recipe for which I tweaked. I loved my changes. :)

FUDGE MELTAWAYS

Steps:

• Melt 1/2 cup butter or margarine and 1 square unsweetened chocolate in saucepan. Blend granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, egg, crumbs, coconut and nuts into butter-chocolate mixture. Mix well.
• Press into ungreased baking dish, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch or square 9 x 9 inch pan. Refrigerate.
• Mix 1/4 cup butter, milk, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Spread over crumb mixture. Chill.
• Melt 1-1/2 squares sweetened chocolate and spread evenly over chilled filling. Chill again. Cut into small squares before completely firm.

MELT-AWAY COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar,and flavorings until light and fluffy.
• Add flour.
• Mix on LOW until blended.
• Drop by teaspoons on UNGREASED cookie sheet, 2" apart.
• Bake at 400 for 8 minutes.
• Let cool 2 minutes.
• Roll in sugar.
• When cool, roll again.

MELT AWAY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.combine flour, sugr, egg yolk and vanilla in a bowl --
• cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse corn meal.
• turn into ungreased jelly roll pan.15x10x2" --
• pat into an even layer on bottom and about 1" up sides.
• arrange pie filling on top.set aside.
• whip egg whites, cream of tartar and remaining sugar till stiff peaks form, when beaters are pulled up.
• spread evenly over peach pie filling.
• top with chopped nuts, if desired.
• bake for 30-35 minutes or golden brown.
• cool.cut into bars --
• may vary pie filling for a different taste -- .