Cheesecake Bars With Brown Sugar Crust
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
12 small bars
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons lemon juice
- cherry pie filling (optional)
- 1 egg
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Cream together butter and brown sugar until smooth.
- stir in flour, and walnuts to create a crumbly mixture.
- reserve 1 cup crust mixture to use as topping and press the rest into bottom of an ungreased 8x8 baking dish. Bake for 9-11 minutes until browned.
- cream together cream cheese and white sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla extract, milk, lemon juice and egg. Mix well and pour over baked crust.
- Add crumb topping and bake for 23-27 minutes until golded brown on top.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool. If desired to with cherry pie filling or other topping.
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