Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars With Strawberries

These chewy chocolate chip cookie bars with strawberries are truly incredible! Topped with fresh strawberries, almond flakes and a dusting of icing sugar, we think you'll love them too.

Similarly to my strawberry blondie recipe, I've been playing around with flour and cake recipes during lockdown. I've been having a bit too much fun, really.

It wasn't long before I introduced my first ever Kitchen Aid as a permanent fixture on my countertop. But with these chewy chocolate chip cookie bars with strawberries, I played around with sugar and almond.

And what I ended up creating were these incredible chewy chocolate chip cookie bars with strawberries and almonds. It's kind of like a choc chip tray bake, but we like to call them cookie bars with chocolate chips!

Why You Should Try These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars With Strawberries

? If you love chewy chocolate chip cookies, you'll love this strawberry cookie bar recipe

? You can swap strawberries for other fruit or make them plain chocolate chip cookies

? It's easier to fill a brownie dish than spooning out cookies

? They taste amazing and I love the texture!?

How to Make Bar Cookies With Strawberries

You'll find a full list below with my cookie bar ingredients. But it's very simple. All you have to do is:

• Preheat your oven, then butter and line a 20cm x 20cm baking dish or tin with baking paper
• Mix all the ingredients together in a mixer, except the strawberries and almonds
• Place the sliced strawberries on top and sprinkle with caster sugar
• Finally, add the sliced almonds (or flakes if using)
• Bake in the oven for 40 minutes
• Allow to cool for 10 minutes before slicing and transferring to a cooling rack
• Dust with a little icing sugar if desired and enjoy!

What Equipment Do I Need?

To make my chewy chocolate chip cookie bars, I used the following:

• Kitchen aid
• Spatula
• 20cm square baking tin*
• Weighing scales
• Measuring spoons
• Chopping board
• Chopping knife

Or why not try a bundt cake pan like this brownie bronut cake?

Can I Bake Them in a Pan?

You don't even need to bake in a brownie tin if you don't want to. You could easily make chocolate chip pan cookies by placing them in a well greased skillet. Although, I do recommend lining it first.

Are These Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars?

As I use cake flour, these are sadly not gluten free. However, I am sure they will work just as well with gluten free flour. I will update this post once I have tried it.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Baking Tips

• Sprinkle the strawberries with a 1 teaspoon of caster sugar so it isn't tart with each bite
• We place the strawberries at the end so they don't fully sink
• Or you would be better mixing with a tablespoon of flour if you prefer it in the mixture
• This choc chip cookie traybake will firm while they cool. So anything between 30-40 minutes is good.

More Bar Cookies Recipe Variations

• You could make them as oatmeal chocolate chip bars by using oat flour milled in a blender. Note, it may not need quite 40 minutes as oat flour is more absorbent.
• If you added a sweet cream cheese layer on top, they are easily adapted to chocolate chip cheesecake bars
• You could make them as peanut butter for chocolate chip bars by replacing strawberries with some dollops of peanut butter
• Make them as chocolate chip blondies instead by removing 20g of sugar and ground almonds

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