Cherry Garcia Gluten-Free Cookie Bars are a combine two delicious desserts into one decadent yet healthier treat!
Confession: The best day of my life is when I tried a cookie bar.
This post is kindly sponsored by Silver Ferns. As always, all opinions are my own.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t the best day of my life, but it was a darn good day because cookies in bar form = MAGICAL. Well actually, anything in bar form in amazing, If you look at many of our recipes you can guess that we’re pretty obsessed. This is the first time that we made cookie bars and they turned out pretty awesome if we do say so ourselves 🙂
Cookies in bar form are so much doughier and gooey-er than traditional cookies too! They are slightly unbaked in the center, making for that irresistible gooey texture. Another great thing about these Cherry Garcia Cookie Bars is that they are made with a boxed cookie mix, making them super easy! Not any boxed mix though, Silver Fern Brand Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix that is gluten-free and made with high-quality ingredients like teff flour, flaxseed meal and coconut oil.
Cookies + Cherry and chocolate are a match made in heaven, which is why we added a chocolate frosting topped with cherries and Silver Fern Brand No Sugar Chocolate Flats! Talk about a perfect addition to a gooey cookie bar.
These ingredients for these cookie bars include:
Silver Fern Brand Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
Coconut oil
Applesauce
Egg/flax egg
Coconut cream
Cocoa Powder
Maple syrup
Silver Fern Brand Chocolate Flats
Cherries
You and your family will go crazy over this decadent yet healthier dessert!
EASY Cherry Garcia Gluten-free Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- Cookie Base
- 1 box Silver Fern Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 2 eggs/flax eggs beaten
- Frosting
- Cream from 1 can full-fat coconut milk chilled for at least 2 hours or 1 cup greek yogurt
- 1-2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- Other
- 2-3 Silver Fern Brand Chocolate Flats
- chopped
- 1 cup cherries pitted and chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and line an 8x8 or a 9x9 pan with parchment paper.
- Add all cookie ingredients together and combine well, add to pan.
- Bake for 15-20 mins, or until done and let cool.
- Combine all frosting ingredients in a large bowl with a hand mixer until blended, spread on bars.
- Add on cherries and chocolate and slice into 9 bars, enjoy!
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Questions of the day!
Do you prefer bars or cookies?
I can’t say i remember my first cookie bar experience, but I agree 100% they are better than cookies of the round variety and it’s all because of that doughy texture. It’s almost like eating straight cookie dough in a more socially acceptable form 🙂 But cookie matters aside, can we just take a moment to appreciate the chocolate on cherry on MORE chocolate frosting happening here <33 Omg so decadent, I wan the whole pan!
I LOVE cookie bars so much. Someone brought pretzel chocolate cookie bars to Bible study last night, and they were DELICIOUS. And that cherry chocolate combo is always so good. I like that you did it in a bar form.
You had me at cherries and chocolate. LA LA LOVEEEEEEEEEE! <3
And I'm all about the bars because this girl is lazy with a capital L!
Same girl same! Thanks Kristy 🙂
Bar form is much easier and more fun! Thanks Emily 🙂
I’m 100% agree with your logic here Natalie! Totally devoured the whole pan in a matter of days! Thanks Natalie 🙂
My aunt just dropped off a bag of cherries she picked and I am so dang excited to make these bars. That frosting looks dreamy. <3
Yay for all the summer cherries! Hope you get to make em and enjoy em!