Sparkly Unicorn Cookie Bars

Turn your cookies from nay to yay with these Sparkly Unicorn Cookie Bars. Layers of tinted dough create a rainbow effect for your cookie base, then each treat is topped with a collection of sprinkles that only a festive unicorn could create! Serve these colorful cookies for birthdays, bridal showers or just make them for your monthly book club meeting. A fun project to do with the kids, these Sparkly Unicorn Cookie Bars are just as magical to eat as they are to make!

Skill LevelBeginner

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Bake cookies. Prepare cookie dough following recipe instructions, omitting Red and Green Candy Melts candy and holiday sprinkles. Divide dough into three equal portions.
Using Pink, Lemon Yellow and Violet icing colors, tint one portion each pink, yellow and violet. Place each portion of dough in separate 16 in. decorating bags. Cut ¾ in. tip in each bag.
Prepare cake pan with non-stick spray. Pipe pink cookie dough in pan in loose zig-zag. Using wet spatula, spread dough evenly in pan. Repeat with yellow dough, then violet dough.
Bake and cool. Remove from pan.
Prepare icing and sprinkles mix. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe instructions.
In bowl, combine about 3 tablespoons each of diamond sprinkles, pink Sugar Pearls, white sparkling sugar, white nonpareils and spring sprinkle mix.
Decorate cookies. Using knife, cut edges from cookie. Using spatula, ice top of cookies with buttercream icing; top with sprinkle mix. Cut into 2 x 2 in. squares.