These Motherlode Layered Cookie Bars are to die for! 4 layers of your favorite cookie dough baked into a crazy delicious cookie bar.
The Motherlode Layered Cookie Bars
You are in for such a treat with these addicting cookie bars! I know this cookie should absolutely be illegal, but let me tell you it is so much fun! Just imagine all of your favorite cookies layered into one bar of fabulousness! Now, don’t go and eat this on a regular basis, but do bring it to your next party or gathering and watch them disappear!
At first glance it may look like a lot to prepare, but each cookie dough can be made in under 10 minutes, so don’t be turned off by the steps below. I like to make the cookie dough in advance and have it in the refrigerator ready to go.
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See the picture below for all the incredible cookie layers.
Cookie Bar Breakdown: 4 Fab Layers!
The Motherload Layered Cookie Bars
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
Layer 1: Sugar Cookie
- 1 Roll of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.Ā Press sugar cookie dough into bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish that's been lined foil and sprayed with cooking spray.
Layer 2: Double Chocolate Chip Cookie
- the recipe below makes double what you'll need for the bars, use half for recipe, extra for cookies
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1 1/4 cups cocoa powder I used Hersheyās Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsps. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Slowly add eggs and vanilla until well combined.
- In another bowl combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to wet ingredients then stir in chips. Layer 1/2 the recipe over sugar cookie layer, pressing gently.
Layer 3: Peanut Butter Cookie
- 1 Cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 Cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined.Ā Press over chocolate cookie dough.
Layer 4:Ā Chocolate Chip Cookie
- the recipe below makes double what you'll need for the bars, use half for the recipe, extra for cookies
- 2 sticks softened butter
- 3/4 Cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 Cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla
- 2 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 bag chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. For Sugar Cookie Dough Layer: Press sugar cookie dough into bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish that's been lined foil and sprayed with cooking spray.
- For Double Chocolate Cookie Dough Layer: In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Slowly add eggs and vanilla until well combined.
- In another bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to wet ingredients then stir in chips. Layer 1/2 the recipe over sugar cookie layer, pressing gently.
- For Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Layer: Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined. Press over chocolate cookie dough.
- For Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Layer: In a stand or electric mixer cream the butter and sugars until well combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla until combined. Place flour, baking soda and salt into a large bolw; mix to combine. Slowly add to wet ingredients along with chocolate chips. Spoon 1/2 of the dough evenly over peanut butter cookie dough but don't press, just leave uneven. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until center of dough is cooked mostly through. Edges will be brown. I covered pan with foil during the last 15 minutes of baking.
- Let cookies cool completely.Ā Lift out of pan with edges of foil.Ā I cut off 1/2 inch edges and just used softer centers, but do as you wish.Ā Edges are crispier.Ā Drizzle top with 1/2 Cup melted chocolate chips if desired.
I hope you enjoy these crazy layered cookie bars. This is one of my very favorite dessert recipes for parties and gatherings. I’m sure you will know why if you make them!
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Well, i saw the pictures, and thats what i call a cookie
Well, i saw the pictures, and thats what i call a cookie
This cookie bars are delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
That is so not right. Holy cow those look so good. I’m running through my inventory in my head to see if I have enough stuff to make them. WOW!!
Found you from Kevin and Amanda… WOW’ I HAD A HEART ATTACK AT 30 just reading this! HA HA! Seriously contemplating heading to the store to get chocolate chips… I am going to a COOKIE EXCHANGE PARTY TOMORROW night… these would be PERFECT!
White chocolate chips in the double chocolate give the bars more color contrast, and holy wow these are good! thanks.
I made these for my annual cookie exchange and they are extremely time consuming. They tasted great, were a huge hit, and not hard, but VERY time consuming. Mine baked more like 50-60 minutes, and I made 2 pans, so all in all it was about a 4-5 hour process. Thanks for the recipe though, everyone was impressed š
OMG,UNBELIEVABLE,I MELTED AND GOT A SUGAR RUSH AFTER ALITTLE PIECE, DEFINATELY AWY TO A MANS HEART!
These are the best sounding things I’ve ever encountered in my life.
I am making a gross ton of them ASAP.
So….my first batch of these will be coming out of the oven in approx 7 mins. I’m so excited!
I seem to have misplaced the beaters for my mixer, so I did the whole thing by hand…tried to convince myself the extra work would pay off…hmmm, next time they’ll be just fine with the mixer.LOL
Awesome recipe and site!
Brian
Last weekend my daugher (a freshman in college) emailed me this recipe and said “Mom we Have to Make this!” It’s cooking now….We had loads of laughs! Only 12 bars ??? OMG !!! Thanks for the FUN!
Phenomenal recipe. Maybe of help to someone: to make it easier to evenly pat each dough layer over the previous layer, I put the pan in the freezer while I made the next batch of dough. That made the layers in the pan slightly firmer, so they didn’t squish around when I put on the next layers. I moistened my hands to keep the dough from sticking to my hands (otherwise I’d have licked half of each dough recipe off of my hands!). Oh, and I didn’t read the part about lining the pan with foil, but the cookies came out beautifully anyway. I cut them much smaller, they’re just so rich!
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My husband just walked by the computer and said “woof- looks like layers of heaven… I’m definately going to have to try these for him now!
They look glorious. How do you not weigh a thousand pounds? I might when finished making this and the pumpkin minis. Sigh. I’ll go ahead anyway, of course. š
It looks absolutely delicious, definitely something that we have to try out for ourselves.
Just a question, why are all the layers homemade with the exception of the sugar cookie layer? Is this because of the way the sugar layer bakes/holds up or is it just convenience?
Tried emailing you, but for some reason it wouldn’t go through. Using the sugar cookie dough premade was for convenience. I had some in my fridge to use, but I imagine you could make your own.
i have all these ingredients in my house right now. this could be dangerous.
Thanks so much for this! I usually make a chocolate chip cookie cake for my brother’s birthday but wanted to do something special for his 18th, today, and this was it! I used brownies in place of the chocolate cookie and it was sooo good!
Yaaaammmmmy!
Just got done making these. The foil makes it easier to get the cookies out of the baking sheet but it also slides around while you spread the layers. But the finished product is amazing and crowd-pleasing!
Hmmm, how can I eat this post?
im gettin really baked and making these š
Popping mine in the oven right now!
It’s all Jessica’s (How Sweet It Is) fault I’m here. She made these, and they look so good!
Um… if you left off that layer of sugar on the bottom, it would be awesome. I think that’s a little extravagant. haha.
Awesome looking cookie and beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing!
Bradley
Looks so yummy! Anything with peanut butter and chocolate has to be delicious
I am going to try the recipe. If it comes out right, I’ll be at the top of my families list again. Looks delicious. Not many tastes out there better than peanut butter and chocolate!
I am in shock looking at this. I just want to start licking my computer screen.
WOW.
Those look amazing. Would you like to be my new best friend?? Cause I would like to invite you over. Please bring these. Thanks.
Bye.
Blessings! š
Amanda
OMG! I have been searching for something like this my whole life, just kidding. Seriously, they look sooo yummy! I am meeting a friend for lunch on Monday I think I will surprise her with these!!!
Love your site!
This makes my stomach hurt just looking at it, but I gotta try it.
I think this dessert should be submitted to: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
it would win! Cheers! wb
Made these last night to take to my creative writing workshop. Everyone raved over them and they were quite good, but I felt that the peanut butter was a little over-powering. Not quite sure how to fix that…
Hi Kendray,
You could leave the peanut butter layer out or switch it for another kind of cookie dough.
Only problem for me being in the UK is that we don’t have Pilsbury Sugar Cookie Dough just lyin’ around! So I might have to make a sugar cookie recipe. But they look AWESOME.
omg!!!! i’m pretty sure i just drooled a little bit. i am totally making these!!!!!