Oatmeal Creme Pie Cookie Bars (Little Debbie Copycat)

Name: Oatmeal Creme Pie Cookie Bars (Little Debbie Copycat)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted; 1 large egg; 1 cup light brown sugar, packed; 2 tablespoons medium, dark, or full-bodied molasses; 1 tablespoon vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 cup instant oats (not old-fashioned or whole-rolled); 3/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened; 1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar; one 7-ounce jar marshmallow creme; 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon salt (cuts some of the sweetness)

Instructions

Prep:5minCook:25min

Rather than go to the fussiness of making sandwich cookies to recreate the classic Little Debbie cookies, I made bars that taste better than the original. Bars are so much faster and easier than cookies since there’s no dough to chill and nothing individual to roll. The bars are soft, very chewy, not at all cakey, and perfectly dense. Use quick-cook oats rather than old-fashioned for the perfect amount of chewiness. There’s molasses and cinnamon for extra depth of flavor and the frosting is truly the icing on this cake and makes the bars taste authentic. You can halve the frosting portion if you’re not a huge frosting person. It’s buttercream frosting spiked with a jar of marshmallow creme and makes the bars taste truly authentic. It’s sweet, decadent, soft, fluffy, sticky, rich, and you’ll want to eat it by the spoonful.

Updated at: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:43:46 GMT