No problem about not seeing my question right away! I knew I might have to wait for the answer. 🙂 I held off on making the frosting until I could go to the store so I ended up using butter after all. The only change I made to either recipe was cut the powdered sugar down to 2 cups instead of 3 and everything was so delicious!! The frosting is perfect for these bars. Thanks for the recipe!

Hi Angie! Sorry I didn’t see this comment until now! Hopefully whatever you chose to use worked for you. I would have suggested margarine sticks as a first option, but using Crisco would have worked, too! Let me know what you used and if you liked the end product!

Hi Joey, glad to hear you liked them! They ARE sweet, and there isn’t a real good way around it except to decrease the amount of powdered sugar (which I find makes it REALLY sweet anyways). You could always try adding in less p.sugar and some flour to make it more thick like cookie dough–but of course, it’d be thicker and thus less spreadable. It’s a change in consistency, and would be less sweet, but still would taste AHMAZING.

Yum, Caitlynn! That sounds amazing 🙂 hope he likes it, I know I would!