How To Make Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert Bars
These strawberry dessert bars give you the best of tart and creamy desserts! They’re made with a buttery sugar cookie and a thick cream cheese layer.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Sugar Cookie Layer:
- â…“cupshortening
- â…“cupbutter
- ¾cupsugar
- 1egg
- 1tspvanilla
- ½tspalmond extract
- 1tspbaking powder
- ½tspsalt
- 1½cupsflour
For Cream Layer:
- 8ozPhiladelphia Cream Cheese,softened
- 1cupwhite chocolate chips
- 1½cupsstrawberries,chopped
- ½cupsugar
- â…“cupwater
- 2tbspcornstarch
- cool whip,large tub
Instructions
Sugar Cookie Layer:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9×13-inch pan.
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Cream together shortening, butter and sugar. Mix until fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, and almond extract until well combined.
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In a separate bowl, combine baking powder, salt, and flour and mix well. Gradually add to creamed mixture until well blended. Spread into the bottom of the greased pan.
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Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until edges or golden brown. Let cool.
Cream Layer:
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Melt white chocolate chips in a bowl in the microwave by heating up in 30 second intervals. Mix with softened cream cheese until well blended. Spread over sugar cookie layer and refrigerate.
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In a small pan, mix together sugar and cornstarch. Add chopped strawberries and water and heat on medium-high heat until it comes to a boil.
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Once it is boiling, take off the heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Pour over cream cheese layer and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
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Top with Cool Whip and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 294.03kcal
- Fat:Â 16.78g
- Saturated Fat:Â 8.40g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.72g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 5.06g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 1.78g
- Carbohydrates:Â 33.58g
- Fiber:Â 0.63g
- Sugar:Â 23.11g
- Protein:Â 3.15g
- Cholesterol:Â 37.99mg
- Sodium:Â 162.03mg
- Calcium:Â 63.34mg
- Potassium:Â 90.09mg
- Iron:Â 0.37mg
- Vitamin A: 89.63µg
- Vitamin C:Â 8.43mg
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