Lemon Cream Cheese Pie Bars
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Recipe: #25316
December 07, 2016
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dairy, Cheese, Fruit, Lemon, Cooking For A Crowd, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Kid Pleaser, Easter, Entertaining, Mother's Day, Potluck, Summer, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Stove Top, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Cream Cheese, Bars, Water more
"This recipe was smaller and in 8 inch pie pan a Marie Callender Pie but I enlarged it to fit in 8x11 pan as pie pan so inconvenient to cut. I 1 1/2 everything but cream cheese filling have no idea how long it took to cook."
Ingredients
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- FOR LEMON FILLING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (130.2 g)
- Calories 328.4
- Total Fat - 21.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.6 g
- Cholesterol - 568.3 mg
- Sodium - 355.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 18.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.1 g
- Sugars - 15 g
- Protein - 14.9 g
- Calcium - 205.7 mg
- Iron - 1.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350.
Step 2
Make the crust by combining the graham cracker or cookie crumbs with melted butter and 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar in small bowl.
Step 3
Press the crust mixture into 8x11 pan.
Step 4
Prepare the cream cheese filling by mixing cream cheese with 1/4 cup sugar and vanilla and an egg using an electric mixer.
Step 5
Mix well until smooth.
Step 6
Pour cream cheese filling into crust and bake 30-35 minutes or until center is cooked A knife stuck in the middle of the filling should come out mostly clean.
Step 7
As bars cools make the lemon filling by combing 3/4 cup sugar with cornstarch, salt and water in a small saucepan.
Step 8
Set mixture over low heat and bring to a simmer, stirring often.
Step 9
Whisk in egg yolks, then add lemon juice and butter
Step 10
When mixture simmers gain remove it immediately from the heat.
Step 11
Pour the lemon filling over the cream cheese filling, and let the bars cool.
Step 12
When cool, chill bars in the refrigerator for several hours before serving.
Step 13
Cut bars into size wish.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.