Are you a chocolate person. Most of the time dessert ain’t dessert unless there is chocolate involved. Blueberry pie? That’s breakfast food, right?
But Springtime makes me crave lemon
I saw a recipe on Pinterest for Lemon Oreo Cheesecake Bars from Six Sisters Stuff and I was off to the pantry to see what I needed
Their recipe called for Lemon Oreos which I couldn’t find so I bought Archway Frosted Lemon Cookies, thinking they would provide a similar texture.
The base of the squares is made from a boxed cake mix, eggs, butter. a little oil and water and white chocolate chips. Chocolate! There is Chocolate after all!
The dough is thick so use your fingers to pat and push it into an even layer in the bottom of your baking dish
Make the cheesecake layer and add in the crumbled cookies
Spread it on top of the cake mix layer.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
When it’s done it will look set, and it will be just starting to brown around the edges. Set pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
Make a lemon glaze by beating cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar, lemon juice and yellow food coloring
Spread glaze all over cooled cake. Place in refrigerator to completely set up before cutting.
Add a little sparkling sugar if you want to get fancy
See the white chocolate chips? You will be so happy they are in there!
Watch out for curious bunnies!
Wait….I think he snagged one!!
I better give him his own plate full~
and save some for us!
Here’s the recipe:
LEMON CHEESECAKE BARS
Ingredients
- First Layer:
- 1 box Lemon cake mix
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 3/4 T vegetable oil
- 1 T water
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- Second Layer:
- 16 oz. cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 T lemon juice
- 10 large lemon cookies [I used Archway]
- Glaze:
- 1 T butter. melted
- 3 oz. cream cheese softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 T lemon juice
- yellow food coloring [optional]
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9 x 13 inch glass baking dish with cooking oil spray. Break 1 egg into a large mixing bowl and beat lightly. Add the dry cake mix, butter, oil, and water and mix with a fork. Batter will be dense and on the dry side. Stir in white chocolate chips. Put batter into baking dish and pat out into an even layer using your fingers.
- Make the second layer by beating the cream cheese with the sugar in a medium bowl. Add vanilla, eggs, and lemon juice. Add cookies and stir with a spoon. Spread the cream cheese mixture over top of first layer. Bake for approximately 30 minutes, or until it looks set and just starting to brown around the edges. Remove from oven and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Make glaze by mixing the powdered sugar and butter. Add enough lemon juice to form the consistency of thick frosting. Mix in yellow food coloring and cream cheese, stir until smooth and incorporated. Cover cooled cake with glaze and place pan in refrigerator to set before cutting. Cut into bite size squares for serving. Makes about 36 bite size squares.
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