So easy to make! It begins with using a vanilla cake mix, with the addition of fresh blueberries, cream cheese, a delicious buttery crumble and a vanilla glaze to make them complete! These creamy blueberry bars are totally "OK" for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacking, right? It's such an Easy & Delicious Treat for your entire Family!
I have been snacking on blueberries a lot lately!
I'm happy to report, blueberries are one of the world's healthiest foods! One of the newest, exciting new evidence about blueberries, is that blueberries can improve memory. Thank goodness for eating even more blueberries NOW!
Sorry, back to talking about these Blueberry & Cream Crumble Bars. 🙂 Focus...Focus...ok back on track and eat more blueberries! 😉
To Make These Bars!
A cake mix is used to make a cookie base and cookie crumbles on top, so that's an easy double whammy.
The blueberries and the cream cheese mixture is sandwiched in between the cookie base and crumbles, making these bars scrumptious and bursting with blueberry goodness with every bite.
They taste incredible with a vanilla glaze on top, pairing well with the sweet and tart blueberries, creamy cream cheese filling and crumble love!
Besides, who doesn't love blueberries and cream cheese together? They are the 'IT' couple you don't want to break up EVER!
But if you're not into blueberries, feel free to substitute other fruit, drizzle white chocolate on top, or if you are real adventurous, try other cake mix flavors. Lemon cake mix would be incredible!
These bars are perfect for summer! It's best to keep them refrigerated until you are ready to devour! Everyone loves them!
Here's the recipe!
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Blueberry & Cream Crumble Bars
Ingredients
- 1 box vanilla cake mix
- ⅓ cup butter room temperature
- 2 eggs divided
- 3 cups fresh blueberries
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Optional: 1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Spray 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray, or line with foil and spray foil to easily take bars out of pan to cut squares.
- In large bowl, combine butter, one egg and cake mix. Mixture will be very stiff, so you might opt to use your hands (which I did.)
- Reserve 1 cup of cake mixture for crumble topping, set aside.
- Press the remaining cake mixture in the bottom of the pan and bake for 10 minutes.
- While crust is baking, in a mixing bowl using mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and remaining egg until smooth.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over top the partially baked crust.
- Evenly arrange the blueberries over the cream cheese mixture and the sprinkle with remaining crumbles.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until center is set and crumbles on top turn golden brown.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
- Chill approximately 30 minutes before serving.
Notes
I got the recipe from Shelly at Cookies & Cups.
Kim Lange says
Awesome! Thank you so much Laura for trying them and your comment! Happy Birthday to Hubby!! 🙂
Laura says
These were fantastic and so addictive! I made them for my mom's birthday and used white cake mix, I'm making them for hubby's birthday tomorrow with the vanilla 🤞♥️
ChocolaTess says
I know exactly what you mean Dana! LOL!!! Thank you so much dear!!
Dana says
haha I can so relate to that lady too! Especially as I've gotten older. It's funny because I can remember lots that happened in 1986 but ask me to remember what I was doing last week? No way! haha
These blueberry crumble bars sound fabulous. Although I'm a chocoholic too, I LOVE me anything blueberry and especially if it's got a crumble on top. These look seriously delish and addictive!
ChocolaTess says
Me too Laura! 🙂 This is an awesome one!!
Laura Dembowski says
Always love when I find a blueberry recipe I haven't tried before.
ChocolaTess says
Thank you Amy! 🙂
ChocolaTess says
Thank you Wendy! It's a great fruit crumble bar for snacks too! 🙂
P~ says
These look so darned good! I can't wait for blueberry season now! Bookmarked! P~
Amy (Savory Moments) says
These bars look wonderful! So yummy!
Wendy says
Perfect as a coffee cake for breakfast or brunch or as a dessert after dinner.
ChocolaTess says
Yes! I love it when you get a bargain on blueberries! That was a great price! Thank you Heather!!
heather (delicious not gorgeous) says
these sound so good! i picked up a few containers of blueberries the other day bc they were 88 cents each... and there's a reason they were so cheap. into baked goods they need to go, so they can soften and concentrate and get tastier in the oven (:
ChocolaTess says
I don't think you'll get the same effect as real blueberries, but if you had canned blueberries like pie filling or frozen those should work like fresh. You could also substitute pretty much any fruit. I did strawberries for a post later and they turned out really good too Deepika!
Deepika|TheLoveOfCakes says
Kim, I love my chocolate desserts..But these blueberry crumble bars look dangerously addictive!! Fresh blueberries are really very expensive here, do you think I can use dried ones for making these?
ChocolaTess says
Thank you Katherine! 🙂 They are soo good!
Katherine | Love In My Oven says
I LOVE blueberries too - especially when they're CRISP and fresh and juicy! It's like candy to me! These bars are dreamy, Kim!!
ChocolaTess says
Thank you so much Maria! It's pretty magical! 🙂
ChocolaTess says
Thank you so much Kelsie!!
ChocolaTess says
Thank you Kelly!!
Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says
This is totally acceptable for breakfast too right?!! I love blueberries too. Almost as much as I love chocolate 😉
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen says
These look just heavenly! I can't get enough blueberries right now so I want to do a faceplant right into your beautiful pics. Have a great week, Kim!
Maria | kitchenathoskins says
I love all your latest blueberry creations....bring it on. These bars look so laborious, but can't believe that they begin with a yellow cake mix. Blueberries, cream cheese and lemon is such a delicious combo, YUM!