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Spring Confetti Bars

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Confetti bars made with Spring colored M&M’s, white chocolate, Spring sprinkles, and gooey marshmallows. These easy dessert bars are sure to please a crowd!

Easy Sugar Cookie Confetti Bars

Aren’t these Spring confetti bars so fun?! And perfect for Spring and Easter-time?

Growing up my mom often made these confetti bars for my siblings and me. They were definitely one of the favorite desserts (along with these carmelitas).

She would use a chocolate chip cookie base, loads of marshmallows, colorful sprinkles, miniature chocolate chips, and chocolate covered pretzels.

Delicious Confetti Cookie Bars with Spring M&M's and lots of gooey marshmallows!

They are the best dessert bars! We’d always get excited when my mom would buy miniature chocolate chips or when chocolate covered pretzels would go on sell. Because that meant lots of confetti bars! My mom would hide the miniature chocolate chips and wouldn’t let us to eat them because they were ONLY for confetti bars.

Which was fine by us; as long as she kept good on her word to make them!

These confetti bars are similar, but a little bit different. The base is a white chocolate chip cookie dough that is baked for about 17-22 minutes. Then marshmallows, white chocolate chips, and M&M’s are thrown on top and these bars get baked for another 2-3 minutes. Everything gets all sorts of gooey and delicious. And then comes the time for sprinkles!

I used white chocolate to make these a lighter and more Spring-like dessert. You can definitely change out the white chocolate for milk, dark, or semi-sweet chocolate. Just make sure to change the chocolate chips in the base and for what is sprinkled on top.

Delicious Confetti Cookie Bars with Spring M&M's and lots of gooey marshmallows!

 

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Spring Confetti Bars
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
17 mins
Total Time
32 mins
 

Confetti bars made with Spring colored M&M's, white chocolate, Spring sprinkles, and gooey marshmallows. These easy dessert bars are sure to please a crowd!

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: confetti bars
Servings: 20 bars
Author: Chelsea
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 large egg at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 and 1/2 cups white flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 and 1/4 cups white chocolate chips separated
  • 3 cups miniature marshmallows
  • 3/4 cup Spring M&Ms
  • 3 tablespoons sprinkles Spring colored
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Combine the room temperature butter with the white and brown sugar in a medium sized bowl.
  3. Mix the butter and sugars together with hand beaters or in a stand mixer until creamy and fluffy. Mix in the egg and vanilla and beat until just incorporated.
  4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cornstarch, and salt. Stir together and slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
  5. Mix until combined.
  6. With a wooden spoon, stir in one cup of the white chocolate chips. Press the cookie dough into a 9 x 13 pan that has been sprayed with nonstick spray.

  7. Bake the cookie dough for 17-22 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned.

  8. Remove and immediately top with the miniature marshmallows and M&M's. Return to the oven for 1-2 minutes or until the marshmallows become puffy.
  9. Remove and sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup white chocolate chips and sprinkles over the bars.
  10. Let cool completely and then cut with a wet knife.
Delicious and easy spring confetti bars. Perfect for an Easter dessert!
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  1. These are basically what i want my spring to look like! Love all the pastels and going with white chocolate was definitely spring-perfect!

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  4. These are the cutest bars ever – I love the tiny bunny sprinkles!! Also, topping these with mini marshmallows is such a genius idea. I bet it makes them extra ooey gooey :). How could I not pin this one?? Hope you have the most amazing weekend ahead, dear!

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  9. Oh my gosh, these are so adorable, Chelsea! I love love love the bright colors of the sprinkles and M&Ms! Love that you put puffy marshmallows on top of these too. These are definitely super cute for spring! 🙂

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  14. Oh wow these have to be the most adorable bars I’ve ever seen! Those bunny sprinkles – I’m dying from a cuteness overload – I NEED THEM IN MY LIFE. Ahhh and the bars sound so delicious too!
    Happy Friday! xx

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  21. Hi there, thanks for such a great recipe.. I am going to make these for my girls’ spring party. Thanks again !!

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  25. I love bars and these look fantastic! Thanks for sharing this great recipe at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party! Always glad to see your great recipes!

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  26. Love how fun and festive these bars are – they look incredible with the colorful sprinkles and pastel M&M’s and totally perfect for Easter 🙂

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    • I haven’t tried, but because of the marshmallows I don’t think they would do well being frozen and then thawed

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  34. These are so adorable and look sooo yummy! Do you think these would be okay on Easter if I made them today (Friday)?

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    • I believe they are the best the day of because of the marshmallows. The day after is okay but I wouldn’t stretch them too much longer than that.

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  35. These are so cute! I’m making them as an Easter treat for the kids. I make white chocolate chip bars all the time- the confetti addition will be fun! With the marshmallows on top, are they best made and served on the same day or are they fine to to make a day ahead? Thanks.

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  37. How well do these keep? Do they stick together due to the marshmallow? Can they be individually wrapped or will they stick to the plastic? Sorry for so many questions. I’m a bus driver and like to make my kiddos holiday treats.
    Thank you

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    • You sound like the best bus driver ever! They unfortunately don’t keep too well, kind of past there prime even by the end of the second day unfortunately 🙁 They do wrap pretty well though and don’t stick too bad to plastic because of the M&M’s and sprinkles on top kind of push down the marshmallows.

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  39. These are so cute! Is the cookie bar supposed to be doughy or more of a crisp cookie?

    So fun for kids to help decorate!

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    • We prefer it more doughy, but bake longer for a more well done cookie. They shouldn’t be crisp 🙂 Yes so fun for kids to get involved!!

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  41. 5 stars
    I made this in a pie dish as a second birthday cake for brother yesterday. Everyone loved it. I loved the chewy cookie texture. I will surely be hitting the gym hard this week. Lol

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  42. These look amazing and perfect for Easter!! Would be so easy to make the dough the night before and pop in the oven the next day! Does anyone know if the dough sits well overnight?

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  43. I couldn’t get the dough to stretch into a 9×13 pan :/ just wasnt enough to stretch it without there being gaps. it didnt look like the video lol. used an 8×8, hope its okay.

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    • I hope you were able to get it to work out ok in the 8 x 8 pan 🙂 It does stretch very thin in the 9 x 13 pan!

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  44. These weren’t a love for me. The brownie base was kind of bland and most of the marshmallow separated from the brownie when I went to cut them up.

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  45. I noticed you said that the base would bake for 13-15 minutes but the recipe says 17-22 minutes so which time is correct?

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