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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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!
Hey Jane, I’m wanting to make this cookie bar with just Cadbury’s milk chocolate chunks / bar instead of the Bueno.. . is this possible? If so how much would u recommended in grams ?
Thanks in advance 😁
Hey! Yes it’s lovely with Cadburys, I usually say the best total amount of chocolate is 300-400g! x
Hi Jane, just another message to say that I made the recipe with the Cadbury chocolate and it was amazing! Thanks so much for sharing x
Hi Jane,
Can I swap out for white kinder bueno? will it still bake the same?
Yep, it should still be the exact same!
Hi Jane,
Could I swap the kinder Bueno bars for a hazelnut / chocolate spread like Nutella? And if so am I better freezing the spread first?
Thanks 🙂
The Nutella can change how they bake slightly, and it would be far easier to mix in frozen dollops so that the dough doesn’t mix in with the Nutella too much! X
Hi ! I made this recipe and it tasted amazing. However I feel as though I could still taste the sugar specs even after it was cooked? What could I do to ensure I’m not biting into pieces of sugar ?x
Did you definitely use the correct types of sugar? This whisking at the beginning is designed to break that down so it may not have been done for long enough!
Hi Jane, I am just wondering if I would be able to add kinder filling from black milk to this recipe in any way, would you mix it in the dough or put it in the middle of the bars? Thank you in advance
I would add it to the middle of the bars as you want the dough to stay the same! x
Hey Jane these look amazinggg! But the only tin I can find is 7×7. How would I alter the recipe to suit the tin size? Tia x
That’s about half the recipe! x
Thankyou! Completely forgot to halve the recipe so they’re the tiniest bit thick but they taste absolutely delicious! First time making any sort of cookie but definitely won’t be the last. Amazing.