Kinder Bueno Cookie Bars!
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Gooey, delicious Kinder Bueno cookie bars packed full with Kinder chocolate and Kinder Bueno pieces
Kinder Bueno bakes
Kinder Bueno recipes honestly take over my blog a little. They’re always popular, and people always want more. I’ve actually only got four Kinder Bueno related recipes on my blog so far, but they’re some of my most popular, especially my Kinder Bueno Cheesecake.
Because of how Kinder Bueno is an absolute kicker, I thought I should post another and I know you’ll love these. Cookie bars are always a hit as well, but Kinder Bueno Cookie Bars?! Utterly next level.
Kinder Bueno cookie bars
Packed full of Kinder Chocolate, and Kinder Bueno pieces, this is the sort of treat that people will ask for again and again without fail. If you don’t like Kinder chocolate, however, please see my many other cookie bar recipes I have available
- Flour – always use plain flour, you don’t want to use self raising. I also add cornflour to create a softer texture
- Raising agents – I only use bicarb in the cookie bars, you don’t want to use baking powder
- Salt – the best addition in my opinion. I use chunky sea salt, not table salt
- Butter – block butter or bakings spread works well
- Sugar – the standard cookie mix of light brown and also white granulated sugar
- Egg – one egg only, I use medium, but large will also work
- Vanilla – an added little bit of sweetness
Chocolate
So as this is a kinder bueno themed bake, I use the kinder chocolate and the kinder bueno bars. The kinder chocolate is best for the softer more chocolate chunk style part, and the kinder bueno is just kinder bueno with that iconic wafer filling.
Folding through the Kinder Chocolate is easy as its solid, but folding in the Kinder Bueno isn’t as easy because they’re quite a bit more fragile. If you’re worried, I did it a couple of times where I put the Kinder Chocolate pieces into the cookie dough first, and then the Bueno so it wasn’t quite as solid as just the dough on its own. It’s not the end of the world if they Kinder Bueno pieces break up, but if you do it by hand it’ll be a lot safer than using a mixer for this bit
Adapting the bake
If you wanted to make these into a chocolate cookie dough, rather than a ‘plain’ one, you can add in 25g of cocoa powder, but take out 50g of the plain flour. The cocoa powder dries the cookie dough out more in comparison to the flour, so you’d have a smidge less dry ingredients.
I do have Kinder Bueno cookies on my blog which are always worth a try because, yet again with Kinder, HEAVEN! Also, Kinder lovers rejoice for my other Kinder Bueno recipes such as ice cream, blondies, a cookie pie or a Kinder tart – absolutely yes please, get me a plate now!
Tips & Tricks
If you’re not careful, the chocolate that is on top or sticks out of the cookie bars can burn slightly, but if your oven is the correct temperature it should be fine. If it’s catching, you need to lower the temperature of your oven.
- These cookie bars will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature
- These will freeze for 3+ months
- You can switch to milk chocolate chips instead of kinder chocolate
- I use this 9″ square tin
I hope you love this recipe as much as I did! Enjoy! x
Kinder Bueno Cookie Bars!
Ingredients
- 275 g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 115 g unsalted butter
- 55 g granulated sugar
- 135 g light brown sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 250 g Kinder chocolate (chopped)
- 170-250 g Kinder Bueno bars (chopped)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190ºc/170ºc fan, and line a 9x9 inch square tin with parchment paper, and leave to the side for now.
- Whisk together the plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cornflour together in a bowl and leave to the side for now.
- Melt the unsalted butter until liquid, and add to a bowl. Add in the light brown sugar and granulated sugar and whisk the mixture together for two minutes by an electric whisk, 3 minutes by hand.
- Add in the egg and vanilla and whisk again until they're combined.
- Add in the mixed together dry ingredients and mix until a really thick cookie dough is formed.
- Add in the chopped Kinder chocolate, and chopped Kinder Bueno, and fold through. Reserve some of the Kinder chocolate for the top of the cookie bars.
- Push the mixture into the 9x9 inch tin, and add on the last few bits of Kinder goodness.
- Bake the cookie bars in the oven for 17-22 minutes. I usually do 19 minutes so they stay reasonably gooey.
- Once baked, leave in the tin for 10 minutes to cool a bit, and then remove and cool fully on the wire rack. Enjoy!
Notes
- If you're not careful, the chocolate that is on top or sticks out of the cookie bars can burn slightly, but if your oven is the correct temperature it should be fine. If it's catching, you need to lower the temperature of your oven.
- I use this 9" square tin
- You can switch to milk chocolate chips instead of kinder chocolate
- These will freeze for 3+ months
- These cookie bars will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature
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I can only get dark brown or white Granulated sugar, will it still work? 🙂 x
Yes you can use the granulated as already listed in the recipe, but substitute the dark brown for the light brown – or use all of one! x
I’ve only got large eggs, can I use this instead of medium?
Yes you can use a large egg!
Hi Jane,
I just wanted to ask what you’d recommending replacing the egg with? As I don’t eat eggs, thank you!
You could try a few things, but my personal favourite is the flax seed replacement!
Hi Jane,
My baking tin is 7.5×7.5 inch, not the 9 inch tin in your recipe. How much longer should I bake them for? I’m cautious not to over bake them as I know they harden up once out of the oven.
Thank you.
Ooh that is quite a smidge smaller so they may not work the best. It may be best to use less ingredients if I’m honest as you risk the middle being raw and the outside being over done with the current ingredients! x
Hi! I absolutely love your blog- I’m slowly making my way through your recipes and loving them! I’m going to bake these this weekend and was just wondering if I only used the kinder chocolate and left out the bueno, would I need to increase the amount of kinder chocolate? Thank you 😊
Hey! Awh thank you!! You can increase them by about another half! I wouldn’t double as that could definitely be too much! X
I made them with just 20g extra of kinder chocolate as that’s all I had and they were amazing 😍 they only lasted a day between me and my boyfriend 🤣 thank you! X
Tried this recipe and it was so easy to follow, the cookie bars came out looking and tasting amazing!
Hi Jane our cookies we’re more doughy if that’s the case shall we bake them for longer?
Yes! Peoples tastes are different and I love them gooey, but if you want them more crunchy then bake for a bit longer!
These turned out great! The family loved them!
I make this for every bake sale or event. So many people ask me about the recipe. This is also an easy one to make with kids getting them to break up the bars or stir the mixture. It’s not as awkward or messy as filling bun cases. Thanks so much for this recipe!
amazing recipe absolutely LOVE IT
Second time making the cookie bars – amazing every time. Never used cornflour in them to this day and I have no issues at all. Everybody really enjoys them, never any to spare. I like to warm them up and eat with cream or ice cream.
So glad you like them! The cornflour is used for texture and does enhance it, but can work without as mentioned in the notes! x
These never ever fail & I’m a terrible baker- something about your recipes makes me able to bake!! So so nicely written so I can follow them & love all the hints and tips (cornflour! Who knew!). Make these for my brother all the time and he gets through about 5 a day!!! Thank you for letting me be a baker! Always come to you for recipes – the best x
I absolute love this recipe, buenos are my favourite, I’ve made it for friends and it’s always a hit! I’ll be making your blondies soon and substituting the white chocolate with kinder and buenos 😋 all your recipes are amazing!
Ah yay! I hope you love the blondies!
Unfortunately i have no light brown sugar. What is a suitable alternative please. I only have normal granulated sugar or can get golden granulated cane sugar. Please advice thank you
You should use all granulated!
Made these yesterdag, followed the recipe exactly as written and they were sooo good! Can’t wait to make these again. I used a 8×8 pan and cooked for about 4/5 minutes longer than stated. Perfect!
Hello, going to try this lovely recipe this week just wondering how many of the big Kinder Bueno bars you used and now many of the little ones you used too?
Thank you x
The ingredients used are listed on the recipe!
Can I use lurpak slightly salted butter in these? it’s the only butter i can find right now!
Yes that should be fine! I would leave the salt out of the recipe!