Sugar Cookie Bark is part cookie, part candy, and one hundred percent scrumptious. A crisp sugar cookie crust is covered in white and dark chocolate and showered with sprinkles.
This tasty treat is pretty enough to serve to company or for gifts, but it only takes minutes to make, so you can share cookie bark any day of the week!
Why you'll love this recipe
Time Saver Recipes for cookies and bars are especially helpful this time of year. December can be extra busy with Christmas celebrations and gift giving. The ingredient shortcuts are also great all year, whenever time for baking is limited.
Sugar Cookie Bark is a super simple recipe. Using store bought refrigerator cookie dough for the crust saves time. No measuring or mixing is involved.
One roll (16.2 ounces) of dough, flattened to cover the bottom of a jelly roll pan, is baked until golden. Immediately after removing the cookie dough from the oven, chocolate pieces are sprinkled on top.
For variety, I used both white and dark chocolate. In just 10-15 minutes, the chocolate is melted and spreadable. Add sprinkles as the finishing touch. That’s it!
This sweet snack is sturdy enough to include in lunch boxes and care packages. It looks so pretty on cookie platters for holidays and parties (birthdays, showers, graduations). A box or tin filled with chocolate bark makes a lovely hostess gift or teacher appreciation present.
There are so many occasions to share this delicious bark. Just change the sprinkles to match your celebration! New Years is one week away.
Chocolate and champagne, anyone?
Ingredients
Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Press cookie dough in an even layer into a jelly roll pan or large cookie sheet with sides, making one giant sugar cookie. Bake until golden brown.
- Sprinkle chocolate over the hot dough. Allow the chocolate to melt for about 10 minutes.
- Spread the melted chocolate over the cookie dough base.
- Add sprinkles. Refrigerate until the chocolate firms.
Tips and variations
- Make peppermint sugar cookie bark by melting the chocolate before spreading on the cookie base and mixing in ½ teaspoon of peppermint candy flavoring.
- Another way to create peppermint bark cookies is to sprinkle crushed peppermint candy canes or peppermint candies on top of the cookies instead of sprinkles.
- For convenience and best flavor, I recommend using melting chocolate that contains cocoa. White candy melts and "chocolate" candy disks, and almond bark contain no cocoa.
- I do not recommend using baking chips for the chocolate. The white chocolate chips may not melt smoothly and the dark chocolate chips will "bloom" with white fogginess after a day as the fat in the chips separates from the chocolate.
- Vary the sprinkles to make cookie bark for any occasion. For example, adding pink or red heart would make this a sweet treat for Valentine's Day.
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Sugar Cookie Bark
Ingredients
- 1 roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough room temperature
- 1-1 ½ cups white melting chocolate
- 1-1 ½ cups dark melting chocolate chocolate formulated for melting or tempered chocolate
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a 10 ½ ” x 15 ½ ” jelly roll pan with parchment paper or foil.
- Scatter pieces of cookie dough into the prepared pan.
- Use a sheet of wax paper to help press and spread the cookie dough evenly across the entire pan.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, until all of the dough is golden brown. (The dough will puff up slightly in the oven, but will flatten after a few minutes of cool down.)
- Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle the melting chocolate pieces over the hot dough.
- Allow the chocolate to melt (about 10-15 minutes), then spread the melted chocolate evenly over the cookie dough surface. Add sprinkles.
- Refrigerate the pan of cookie bark for about 15 minutes, until the chocolate firms.
- Remove from the refrigerator. Using overhanging parchment/foil as handles, lift the cookie bark out of the pan and onto a cutting board.
- Cut into individual pieces.
- Store cookie bark at room temperature in an airtight container, with wax paper between layers for up to 10 days.
Notes
- Make peppermint sugar cookie bark by melting the chocolate before spreading on the cookie base and mixing in ½ teaspoon of peppermint candy flavoring.
- Another way to create peppermint bark cookies is to sprinkle crushed peppermint candy canes or peppermint candies on top of the cookies instead of sprinkles.
- For convenience and best flavor, I recommend using melting chocolate that contains cocoa. White candy melts and "chocolate" candy disks contain no cocoa.
- Vary the sprinkles to make cookie bark for any occasion. For example, adding pink or red heart would make this a sweet treat for Valentine's Day.
- Layer cookie bark between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container or tin.
- Use crumpled wax paper at the top of the storage container to ensure no movement during shipping.
- Only mail cookie bark in cool weather.
Nutrition
First published December 24, 2017. Last updated November 9, 2022. Updated for additional information, photographs and better reader experience.
Monica
Happy New Year, Wendy! Hope the year is full of happiness, good health, and discovery for you!
Love this idea of a sugar cookie bark!! What a tasty idea and they look just perfect for this serious winter we're having right now. How nice to make this and share with others to perk up their day.
frugal hausfrau
I haven't been by for awhile! Big mistake because I'd make this for Christmas in a heartbeat! Lovely photos, too! Happy New Years!
Mollie
Madalyn Parr
Okay, I'm definitely making this for New Year's Eve! Thanks for sharing the recipe! Pinning this for sure to my blogger board.
saltandserenity
This is such a great idea. Simple but very beautiful. I love those little snowflake sprinkles. Very festive.
The Monday Box
Thanks, Cindy! This bark literally took minutes to make and was a tasty canvas for my sprinkles. 🙂