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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Hi Jane.
Can I make these without the Bueno? Will I need to replace it with something else? Or will they be ok just making them with the Kinder chocolate?
As the bueno is just put on top, you can easily leave it off x
Hi Jane.
I’m a diabetic so need the amount of carbohydrates in order to inject the right amount of insulin.
Do you have the nutritional information (specifically carbohydrates) available please?
Hello Jane,
I was just wondering if I could use this recipe for a skillet cookie instead of bars?
Thank you!
Yes you can! x
These are delicious 😍 they work so well!
This is my favourite of Jane’s recipes by far! They are just wonderful- so easy to make, I make them every few weeks as I just can’t resist! I use only kinder choc as I prefer that to the crispy kinder bueno texture. I followed your advice and took them out of the oven after 19 mins when they almost seemed underdone. But after cooling they were so perfect and gooey! Thank you Jane, I struggle to use anyone else’s recipes now as yours are so perfect – so please give us more new recipes! Thank you x
Hi Jane, I’m making these tomorrow and I can’t wait 😋 I only have a 12in by 8in pan or a 10in by 6in pan.. which would be better to use and would I need to adjust cooking times depending on the pan?
The 10×6 is slightly too small, and the 12×8 is slightly too big – either you would need to adjust the timings because of this. The smaller tin will increase it, the larger tin I’m not sure but as its thinner, less time? x
Can you make these gluten free?!
Thanks a lot
Kinder Bueno are not gluten free so you can leave it out, or use an alternative, but other than that it’s a simple flour switch and maybe a bit of Xantham Gum! x
Hi Jane! Could you bake these as cookies rather than as bars?
Kira
I’d recommend looking at my kinder bueno cookie recipe x
Love this recipe!
Is there any spices I could add to do a carrot cake cookie dough? And then work out how much to add?
Thank you x
Amazing recipe!
Do you think it would be possible to add blobs of the kinder spread to this? (Maybe frozen?)
you can, but I wouldn’t add too much as the bake is quite shallow x
Hello,
Could I use Stork instead of unsalted butter like in your NYC cookies as I already have that in?
Thanks in advance
You can do!
Hi I wanted to try these I have a 10”x7” tin would I use the same amount of ingredients thanks
Yes!
Hiya! I bought a kinder beuno spread from Black Milk and wanted to incorporate it into these cookies. Would this be okay to do using the exact method you’ve provided? Thank you 😊
There is a method for using the spread in my cookies (not these cookie bars) – which would work really well! x
I absolutely love this recipe!! I’m making some last minute cookie bar tomorrow for a friend’s baby shower. Just realised I haven’t got any unsalted butter, would Nordpak spreadable (Aldi’s version of Lurpak) be OK to use ?
Yes that should be okay for these! x
Hi Jane
Firstly I’m such a big fan of your baking. And these cookies are so delicious. Thank you for sharing. I wanted to try and make these but replace the kinder with galaxy.
Do I litterally just replace the chocolate with galaxy instead?
Thank you
Yes!! Basically just use galaxy in place of the kinder chocolate, and then you could put a bit on top the same way with the bueno if you wanted!