Chocolate Gingerbread Cookie Bars

Name: Chocolate Gingerbread Cookie Bars
Ingredients: ½ cup [160 g] molasses; 1 cup [200 g] packed light brown sugar; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 3 eggs; 1½ tsp ground ginger; ½ tsp fine sea salt; ½ tsp ground cloves; ¼ cup [20 g] Dutch-process cocoa powder; 1¾ cups [245 g] all-purpose flour; ½ cup [90 g] semisweet chocolate chips; 2 oz [55 g] cream cheese, at room temperature; 4 Tbsp [55 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature; 3½ Tbsp eggnog; ½ Tbsp rum (optional); ¾ cup [90 g] powdered sugar; Ground cinnamon for dusting

Preparation info

Serves
15
as a dessert

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Vegetarian Heartland

By Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Published 2017

About

These gingerbread bars are a mix between gingerbread cut-out cookies and brownies. You can serve them without frosting with your afternoon tea, or frost them to create a sweeter, more festive version that’s worth sharing with friends for dessert.

Ingredients

1 cup [220 g] unsalted butter
½ cup [160

Dessert
Vegetarian
Winter

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F [180°C]. Line a 9-by-13-in [23-by-33-cm] baking pan with parchment paper.

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Remove from the heat and whisk in the molasses, brown sugar, and vanilla. Let cool for 5 minutes and then whisk in the egg