Welcome back everyone. Let's make these delicious Neapolitan sugar cookie bars
Neapolitan means chocolate, vanilla, and topped with strawberry. You guys ready for this one
Make these for your sweetie, your honey, your kids, whoever you have
Make them for yourself for Valentine's Day. You don't even need a holiday to make these. Just make them
Come on up, you guys, and let's make this delicious dessert. We're going to sift a few ingredients
We're going to start with two and a quarter cups all-purpose flour
Dig deep. Grab a knife. I always forget the knife. There we go
we're going to put it into a large mixing bowl. Now this is all purpose flour
There we go. And then I'm going to take a quarter cup and go in
Alright, now we're going to add in
3 quarters teaspoon of baking soda And then we're going to put in
1 half a teaspoon of salt We're going to whisk this all together
We'll make the bars nice and fluffy We'll incorporate the salt and the baking soda inside the flour
We're going to set this aside Now we're going to cream some butter
You're going to be in a separate large mixing bowl And we're going to add in one and a half sticks
Of very soft butter Now when you're putting the butter into your mixing bowl
Hang on to the wrapper Because we're going to need that Later in the recipe
Yes, we're going to need the wrapper So hang on to that
And I've got the other half right here Now let me have a knife
I have a Ziploc bag in my freezer full of these little wrappers right here
that I use to butter dishes with casserole dishes with yeah there we go
adds great flavor alright we're going to blend this together I'm just using my electric hand mixer
we'll mix this for about two minutes until it's light and creamy and a light color
All right. One more minute
Two minutes. all right now what we're going to do is add in our sugars i have three quarters cup of white
granulated sugar now i'm using a cane sugar we're going to add that in and then we're going to add
in a three quarters cup of powdered sugar now you don't have to sift the powdered sugar it'll
break all up inside of there Alright, we're going to blend this together for another two minutes
We're going to crack in one egg I like to bring my eggs to room temperature
That way your mixture doesn't seize up on you we're going to add in one and a half teaspoons of vanilla extract
that's one and a half and for a little pizzazz we're going to add in half a teaspoon almond extract
little pizzazz There we go
Now we're going to beat this for one minute. Alright. We going to add in three tablespoons of sour cream
Get a little tanginess to it. Beat until just combined. There we go
All right, we're going to need a spatula for this part right here. We're going to take the flour mixture, and we're going to pour it right on top of our batter here
Get it all in there, and then we're going to fold it in with our spatula until all combined
We have a nice dough. There we go. All right, I'll see y'all here in a minute or so
Just keep folding it in. All right, congratulations. You just made a sugar cookie batter or a dough
You can consider that. All right, if it gets too hard on you, you can go in with your hands
but just don't over mix this, okay? You don't want a tough cookie bar. So what we're going to do
so we got one dough, we need two flavors. We've already got a flavor here, so we're going to take
half of our dough, put it into a separate bowl. Now I'm just using the one that I had the flour
mixture in. My husband does the dishes, so whoops, I needed another one. All right, so we're going to
put the other batter in here and we gotta give it a flavor. Let's see what we got. Just
a little bit more. Yep. All right. I'm going to use that for that. All right. Now, to one
of the doughs, we're going to add in three tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
Oop. Got to give it that chocolate flavor. Alright, I've got the three tablespoons of cocoa powder
We're just going to take a wooden spoon. and we're just going to blend it in until combined
I'm going to go in, and then just kind of mash that together
It's going to have like a marble consistency to it and the look
Oh, that looks good right there. Look. All right, that's what we're looking for
I'm gonna bring this one over here. Go in and just make a nice batter there. I'm
gonna get any more crumbs that are left in the bowl here. Make one dough. All right
we've got the chocolates. Which we don't need that anymore. We got our chocolate
and we got our vanilla. Can y'all see? There it is. We're going to be using an 8 by 8
baking dish for this recipe to bake our sugar cookie bars in
Now, I'm using that wrapper that has the butter on it from earlier in the recipe and we're going to slather it
all in our baking dish. Coat it well. That will help release our cookie bars in the recipe
And, I'm going to give it some more flavor, right? Yeah. Make sure you get in those corners
It will help release it. Now, if you don't want to do this step, you can just fit in a piece of parchment paper
and just make sure it goes all the way up to the edges and hangs over so you can pull it out
There we go. All right, we're going to take the chocolate dough that we made
We're going to place it into the baking dish, and we're just going to press it down into an even layer
Just like that Now we going to take the vanilla We going to put that out I just going to break it up and put it around It be easier to kind of push down into
our baking dish here on top of that chocolate. And I'm just going to press it in
just like that. Now I'm going to take a piece of parchment paper and put it on top
And we're going to flatten that out just a little bit. So our fingerprints don't look like they're on there
And I'm just going to flatten down. Have a nice layer. Yeah
And that is what it should look like. Now I'm going to get a paper towel, clean off the edges
Make sure there's no butter. I'm going to melt over the edges on this
all right there we go is that nice and symmetrical for y'all
all right i've got my oven preheated at 325 degrees we're going to bake this for 35 to 40
minutes until it's nice and golden brown on the top. Take a toothpick, insert it in the center and pull it out and it should be nice and clean
It can have a crumb on it. That's totally fine. You just don't want wet batter or it goes
back in the oven. All right, you guys, we still have that top strawberry layer to make
for our Neapolitan sugar cookie bars. So stay tuned for that. Okay, we got the sugar cookie bars done
They're cooled down completely Now when they came out of the oven
I just placed it on a rack in the dish And let it sit for about 5 or 10 minutes
Until I was able to get them out And to do that, you just put a cutting board on top
Flip the whole thing over Pat it down a little bit And it pops out
And then I just put a rack on it and flipped it over Cooled it down completely
And that's what we got right here Look at that Right, now this is a Neapolitan
So we gotta make that third layer Which is gonna be the strawberry layer
Of course it's Valentine's Day So what I did Was I've taken a pint of strawberries
Washed them off, took the stems off And then I kinda diced them up into small pieces
And what we're gonna do is blend them up so I've got my small blender here
and I'm just going to put the strawberries in we'll get them all in there
they should fit there we go now I'm going to leave my strainer right on top of a medium bowl
and I'll show you why here in just a second alright now I'm going to pulse this until we get a fine puree
I'm going to place it into my sieve strainer I have over my medium bowl
And then we're just going to get a spatula and just kind of smash it down until we get all the
juice out. And then just kind of smash it down until all the juice comes out
All right, we got a lot of juice out of there. We do this so that we don't have all of that on top of our sugar cookie bars
We got it nice and smooth. That's what we're looking for right there
Nice and pretty. All right, we're going to take some powdered sugar
I'm going to put a quarter cup in. we're gonna take a whisk and we'll blend that in
We're looking for a thick consistency. So we're gonna put in a quarter cup at a time
till we get that consistency that we're looking for. Alright so we at the three cups of powdered sugar You want this thick enough to spread on there not pour
Now if you want a half this part of the recipe, I would do that
Now you wanna make sure that you can coat the back of your spoon, so I get some
and just turn it over. And then just, all right, You see the line right there
That'll coat it very nicely. All right, we're going to drizzle some on
Do it right in the center and let it just smooth out
We want this layer to set up. All right, now I'm going to take my offset spatula
and we're going to frost it. All right, we're going to let it drip down the sides
Now we want this to set up, so we're going to let this sit until that frosting is set up
Now if you want to put sprinkles on it, you can do that at this time
You can put some Valentine's sprinkles on, white sprinkles, whatever you want. I'm going to leave them just like this
All right, we're going to let this set up. We're going to cut bars. Give it a try for you
All right, you guys. There we go. Let's cut these into bars
I got a long, sharp knife. You want to make quick cuts
That means just place it on there and whoop, down, okay? Now I'm going to start in the center
There we go. Give it a break. Oh, yeah. Y'all see in there
Mm-hmm. All right, and then we're going to cut those in half
So we're going to do the same thing. Just put it on there and drag it down until you hear that crunch of that
Then we're going to do it one more time here. It's going to give us those bar shapes
Look at that. Do you see the layers? Oh, yeah. All right, I'm just going to turn it
and then I'm going to cut these. And let's see. There we go
And then we'll just get these out of the way. I want to show y'all
There we go. My Neapolitan. That's the triple threat right there. Yeah
Sugar cookie bars. We've got the chocolate, got the vanilla, and we've got the strawberry
I'm going to cut the rest of these up. And then we're going to talk about it
Here you go, you guys. My Neapolitan Sugar Cookie Bars. Aren't those perfect for Valentine's
Who are you giving these to? This guy. All right. Y'all want me to give it a try
Ooh. Here's my bite I want this for Valentine's Day Homemade
No additives or preservatives in this one you guys Y'all, that strawberry and that cocoa Perfect
Plus, I can taste a little almond in there, which throws it over the top
Delicious. Those three flavors together, that vanilla in there, that is good
The texture, it's nice and moist on the cookie level there. It almost tastes like a brownie on the bottom with that cocoa in there
Oh my gosh, it is delicious. Make these and just pass them around
All right, you guys. Now, one more thing With that glaze, I would definitely cut back on the strawberries to half a cup
Maybe three quarters of a cup That made a lot of glaze
And I was adding a lot of powdered sugar to thicken that up Alright, I just wanted to let y'all know that, okay
It'll be in my blog that way also Alright you guys, thumbs up
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I gotta go hide these from my husband. He'll eat them all
Nuh-uh. Yes, he will. All right. Of course, my Valentine is going to get some of these
Of course. I better get some, too. All right, you guys. I'll see y'all on the next episode. Bye