It was very good timing for the dinner; we celebrated Tina's birthday! I asked, and she wanted something fruity for her birthday treat. I was in luck, because she had recently pinned:
Cream Cheese Lemon Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 box lemon cake mix
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine - softened
- 1 egg
- 8 ounces cream cheese - softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 lemon - grated
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice or 1/2 fresh squeezed lemon
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Container: 9 x 13 baking pan and a mixing bowl
Directions
PREP
15 mins
COOK
35 mins
READY IN
50 mins- In a mixing bowl, blend dry cake mix, butter, and 1 egg.
- Press into a 9 x 13 pan, ungreased.
- Beat the cream cheese until smooth.
- Gradually blend in the powdered sugar.
- Stir in lemon peel and lemon juice until smooth.
- Reserve 1/2 cup of this mixture and refrigerate it for later use.
- Beat the remaining 2 eggs, add the vanilla, and then beat this mixture into the remaining cream cheese mixture until well blended.
- Spread over the cake mixture.
- Bake at 350° until set, approximately 25 to 30 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Spread the reserved cream cheese mixture onto the bars.
- Refrigerate until firm; then cut into squares and serve.
Wow, was I nervous while making this dessert. I had also bought brownie mix so that we knew there would be enough dessert for everyone, but Tina wanted fruity, and I just didn't think I was doing it right! I mean, the cake mix "crust" was so thin! The egg/cream cheese mixture barely covered the crust! What if it happened to be really thin? And yucky?
Well, I shouldn't have worried! The crust rose as it baked. The other two layers were delightful. Tina loved it, and that's the most important thing.
If I were to make it again, the only thing I would change would be to double that egg/cream cheese mixture. Really, there just wasn't enough of that.
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