How To Make Lemon Cream Cheese Bars
Serves:
Ingredients
- 24vanilla wafers,crushed
- ½cupflour
- ¼cupbrown sugar,packed
- ¼cupcold butter
- 8ozcream cheese,softened
- 1cupsugar
- 2eggs
- 2tbspflour
- 2tbsplemon zest,divided
- ¼cuplemon juice,freshly squeezed
- ¼tspbaking powder
Equipments
Instructions
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Line a 9×11-inch baking pan with parchment paper over sides of pan.
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For finer wafer crumbs, place in a food processor or place in a Ziploc bag and crush with a rolling pin.
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In a bowl, combine wafer crumbs, ½ cup flour and brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture crumbles; press firmly onto bottom of the pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 min.
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In the meantime, beat cream cheese and sugar with electric mixer until blended. Add eggs and flour; mix well. Blend in lemon juice, baking powder and half the lemon zest;
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Pour over crust. Bake for 25 to 28 minutes or until center has set. Cool completely.
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Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and remaining lemon zest.
Nutrition
- Calories: 266.87kcal
- Fat: 13.40g
- Saturated Fat: 6.90g
- Trans Fat: 0.16g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.22g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.87g
- Carbohydrates: 34.48g
- Fiber: 0.54g
- Sugar: 20.39g
- Protein: 3.29g
- Cholesterol: 57.62mg
- Sodium: 125.22mg
- Calcium: 39.02mg
- Potassium: 68.10mg
- Iron: 0.59mg
- Vitamin A: 113.02µg
- Vitamin C: 3.26mg
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