How To Make Ooey Gooey Lemon Coconut Butter Bars
Lemony butter bars have a cake-like crust, creamy cheesecake center and a topping of coconut flakes, brown sugar, and even more butter.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1boxyellow cake mix,(16 oz)
- 1largeegg
- 1stickunsalted butter,melted
For Filling:
- 8ozcream cheese,softened
- 2largeeggs
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ½cupfresh lemon juice
- 2cupspowdered sugar
- 1stickunsalted butter,melted
For Topping:
- ¼cupbrown sugar
- ¼cupsugar
- 1cupcoconut flakes,sweetened
- 2tbspunsalted butter,melted
- ¼cupflour
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9×13-inch pan and set aside.
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In a Large mixing bowl add the cake mix, egg, and melted butter and stir together until incorporated. Press into the bottom of the 9×13-inch pan. Set aside.
Filling:
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In a Large mixing bowl beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to beat until smooth. Add the vanilla, lemon juice, powdered sugar, and melted butter. Pour over the cake mix.
Topping:
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In a medium sized bowl combine the brown sugar and white sugar. Mix in the coconut and stir in the butte and flour. Sprinkle on top of the filling.
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Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. The center should be gooey but set and the top is lightly brown. Allow to cool before cutting into squares.
Nutrition
- Calories: 281.35kcal
- Fat: 15.50g
- Saturated Fat: 9.85g
- Trans Fat: 0.40g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.52g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.66g
- Carbohydrates: 34.07g
- Fiber: 0.89g
- Sugar: 23.52g
- Protein: 2.64g
- Cholesterol: 56.43mg
- Sodium: 205.53mg
- Calcium: 64.19mg
- Potassium: 62.84mg
- Iron: 0.76mg
- Vitamin A: 117.09µg
- Vitamin C: 2.02mg
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