Springtime on a cookie [bar]!

These Easter Cookie Bars are a family favorite! They check all the boxes at the McIntyre homestead: yummy dessert that can also be a snack? [check]. Easy dessert that requires minimal planning, grocery shopping, and baking? [a big check!]. Something special that can be jazzed up depending on the holiday? [you guessed it, check!]

These bars have a wonderful not-too-sweet and chewy sugar cookie base, with just barely baked M&M's on top(see how their adorable pastel shells have just barely begun to crack? That's perfection right there). And, as you can probably guess, you can just change up the M&M's on top to easily make them for Halloween, Christmas, etc.

This is a treat that I'll make while Quinn is at school, so that when he gets home he thinks I've been just locked in the kitchen baking for him all day. And then he hugs and kisses me, and tells me all the good gossip in third grade, and does his homework without fighting me. As you can see, this treat is worth it big time.