Lemon Cream Cheese Bars

Lemon Cream Cheese Bars are elemental to marque with crescent rotation dough but sensation arsenic bully arsenic a made-from-scratch pastry.

Only 6 ingredients needed for this casual barroom recipe.

Lemon Flavor

A operation of citrus zest and caller citrus foodstuff gives tons of bright, caller citrus spirit to these creamy bars. They are some saccharine and tart.

Recommended Equipment

• Zester- this OXO Zester is precise casual to use.
• Electric Mixer- a hand-held mixer is cleanable for mixing the filling together.
• 9×13-inch Baking Pan
• Parchment Paper

3 Easy Parts

These casual dessert bars dwell of a crescent dough crust, a creamy pick cheese/lemon filling, and a apical furniture of crescent dough which gets brushed with melted food and sprinkled with sweetener and citrus zest for a buttery, crispy finish.

Bottom furniture of crescent dough aft being baked.

Cream food filling dispersed implicit crust.

Bars aft being removed from oven.

Crescent Dough

I emotion utilizing crescent rotation dough successful recipes and I astir ever person a conduit of crescent dough successful my refrigerator. Crescent dough besides works large for these casual Cream Cheese Crescent Danishes, Crescent Roll Coffee Cake, and Sausage and Crescent Roll Casserole. You tin usage either the crescent sheets (so handy) oregon the regular crescent rotation dough.

Lemon Cream Cheese Bars Storage

Because of the pick cheese, these bars should beryllium stored successful the refrigerator. They volition past astir 4 days. They are large served acold oregon astatine country temperature.

More Lemon Desserts

• Lemon Chess Pie
• Lemon Lush
• Slow Cooker Lemon Cake
• Lemon Cookie Bars
• Lemon Icebox Cake
• Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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Lemon Cream Cheese Bars

Lemon Cream Cheese Bars are elemental to marque with crescent rotation dough but sensation arsenic bully arsenic a made-from-scratch pastry.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword bars, Crescent rotation recipes, lemon

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Servings 12

Calories 326kcal

Equipment

• Zester
• 9×13-inch baking dish
• Hand-held electrical mixer
• Parchment Paper

Ingredients

• 2 (8-ounce) tubes refrigerated crescent rotation dough
• 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• zest from 2 lemons
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 3 tablespoons sugar

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottommost of a 9X13-inch cookware with parchment insubstantial oregon aluminum foil. If utilizing foil, spray lightly with cooking spray.
• Unroll 1 conduit of crescent rotation dough and agelong it to screen the bottommost of the pan. Bake for 5 minutes. Let cool.
• Using an electrical mixer, bushed pick food and citrus foodstuff until smooth. Set speech astir 1 spoon of citrus zest and adhd the remainder to the pick food substance on with the 1/2 cupful sweetener and vanilla extract. Beat until mixed well.
• Spread pick food substance connected apical of bottommost furniture of dough.
• Unroll 2nd portion of dough and laic it connected apical of pick cheese, stretching it to fit.
• Brush apical with melted butter. Combine the 3 tablespoons of sweetener and the acceptable speech citrus zest and sprinkle connected top.
• Bake for 30 minutes, oregon until aureate brown. Let chill 20 minutes. Cut into squares and refrigerate until chilled.

Nutrition

Calories: 326kcal

Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.com

The station Lemon Cream Cheese Bars appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.