Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars

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I’m a sucker for these delectably, delicious Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars! These moist, flavorful dessert bars are bursting with juicy strawberries in a cream cheese and crumble crust drizzled with a delish vanilla cream glaze!

Totally irresistible and addictive!  Strawberries and cream cheese make everything better!  More strawberry? Check out 20 Dessert Delights Using Strawberries!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars

This recipe for Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars will satisfy your cravings for a delicious, decadent dessert. You’ll only need seven ingredients to whip up a batch of this scrumptious treat.

They have the perfect balance of crumbly oat topping, sweet cream cheese filling, and tart strawberries baked right in. You can opt to add a simple powdered sugar glaze on top if desired.

Not only tasty, they’re also simple to make. Plus, let’s be honest, they look absolutely divine.

These strawberry bars are a seasonal favorite, perfect for barbecues and potlucks during the summertime and can easily be adapted with whatever fruits or flavors you like. You won’t have to worry about any leftovers as this recipe is sure to delight your friends and family!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars

These bars are perfect for a nice sweet treat with breakfast with coffee, snacking in the afternoon and a delish after dinner dessert!  You’ll totally enjoy these amazing fruity bars all summer long!

I can’t resist these bars, so don’t even try to stop me.  Someone might get hurt in the process and I can’t be held responsible for my actions. Besides, by the time you read this, it will be too late anyways, right?

Although, on second thought, I kind of wish we could do a replay.  I almost devoured this whole pan!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars in a pan

Ingredients You Need

Strawberry Crumb Bars

How to Make Strawberry Cheesecake Bars With Crumble 

  1. Preheat oven to 350° degrees.
  2. Spray 9×13 baking pan or baking dish with cooking spray, or line with parchment paper or foil and spray to easily take bars out of pan to cut squares.
  3. In large bowl, combine softened butter, one egg and cake mix using mixer or you might opt to use your hands. Mixture will be very stiff, but it will come together like a pastry dough.
  4. Reserve 1 cup of cake mixture for crumble topping, set aside.
  5. Press the remaining cake crumbs in the bottom of the pan and bake for 10 minutes.
  6. While crust is baking, in a mixing bowl using mixer, make the creamy cheesecake filling

Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars tutorial

Prepare the Cream Cheese Mixture with Strawberry Layer

  1. Beat softened cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, (optional: lemon juice) and remaining egg until smooth.
  2. Spread cream cheese mixture over top the partially baked crust.
  3. Evenly arrange the strawberries over the cream cheese mixture.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars tutorial

Sprinkle Crumbles On Top and Bake Bars

  1. Sprinkle with remaining crumbles on top.
  2. Bake for 30-35 minutes until center is set and crumbles on top turn golden brown.
  3. Cool bars on wire rack and then add glaze.

Make The Glaze

  1. For a quick glaze – Mix together 1 cup powdered sugar and 2-3 tablespoons milk, mix with a fork or whisk to get a thick pourable consistency. Tip: If you have lumpy glaze, put this mixture in microwave for 10-15 seconds and then pour it on bars or place glaze in ziploc bag and snip corner and drizzle on top of bars. Glaze with firm up as it cools.
  2. Chill approximately 30 minutes before serving and cut into bars.

tutorial Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars

Storing

  • Store strawberry cream cheese dessert in an airtight container in refrigerator for up to 4 to 5 days.  

Reheating Bars

  • If you want to serve these bars warm, you can warm them individually in the microwave for 30 seconds, or you can warm the pan (covered with foil) in the oven at 350°F for about 20 minutes.

Freezing Bars

  • This strawberry cheesecake bar recipe is great for the freezer. Put them in the pan or wrap each one separately with plastic. To thaw, leave it at room temperature.

Helpful Tips for Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars

  • Make sure your butter is softened or room temperature for best results when mixing with the cake mix. It makes it come together easier.
  • Cream cheese should be softened so cream cheese mixture isn’t lumpy.
  • Slice strawberries thicker than thin slices.
  • Do not underbake these bars.  Make sure you bake these bars completely, or you will end up with bars that don’t hold together and the crust will be soggy.
  • These bars don’t require a lot of ingredients, but it does have steps and layers to the recipe, but not to worry!  These are simple steps and totally worth making!  Your family will love them!!!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Bars in a pan sliced

Other Options for Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert Bars

  • These strawberry bars are really good warmed up in the microwave, especially if you’re one of those kinds of people that love to warm everything up!
  • If you want a little more decadence, add a big ole scoop of ice cream on top of a bar.  OMGoodness!  It’s literally a heavenly strawberry cream cheese crumble pie a la mode!

As for more OMGoodness desserts, you’ll love these Lemon Sweet Rolls, these Strawberry Explosion Cheesecake Trifle Desserts and this Caramel Glazed Apple Crumble Coffee Cake!

These Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars will have the family begging for more. These are adapted from my Blueberry & Cream Crumble Bars from a few weeks ago.  I guess we couldn't get enough!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble BarsThese Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars will have the family begging for more. This strawberry cream cheese dessert is adapted from my Blueberry & Cream Crumble Bars from a few weeks ago.  I guess we couldn’t get enough!

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars

Kim Lange
Strawberries and cream cheese make these crumble bars burst with flavor in your mouth! Highly addictive!
4.60 from 50 votes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 12 Servings
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • 1 18.25 oz box vanilla cake mix
  • cup butter room temperature or softened
  • 2 large eggs (1 egg for crust/crumble and 1 egg for cream cheese mixture)
  • 3 cups fresh strawberries
  • 8 oz cream cheese softened
  • cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Optional: 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°
  • Spray 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray, or line with parchment paper or foil and spray to easily take bars out of pan to cut squares.
  • In large bowl, combine softened butter, one egg and cake mix using mixer or you might opt to use your hands. Mixture will be very stiff, but it will come together like a pastry dough.
  • Once it's mixed, 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, make the cream cheese mixture, 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 thick sliced strawberries over the cream cheese mixture and the sprinkle with remaining crumbles.
  • Bake for 30-35 minutes until center is set and crumbles on top turn golden brown.
  • Cool bars on wire rack and then add glaze.
  • For a quick vanilla cream glaze - Mix together 1 cup powdered sugar and 2-3 tablespoons milk, mix with a fork or whisk to get a thick pourable consistency. Tip: If you have lumpy glaze, put this mixture in microwave for 10-15 seconds and then pour it on bars or place glaze in ziploc bag and snip corner and drizzle on top of bars. Glaze will firm up as it cools.
  • Chill approximately 30 minutes before serving and cut into bars.
Keyword bars, cream cheese, crumble, fruit, strawberry
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24 Comments

  1. If you don’t have fresh, just make sure they aren’t super juicy and make sure you bake the crust through thoroughly, so you don’t end up with a soggy crust. Hope this helps!

  2. Tracy, sorry it didn’t work out for you. I’ve made these several times and I didn’t have those issues. It sounds like maybe they weren’t baked all the way through or you didn’t use enough crumble on the bottom. Hopefully you give it another try. 🙂 Thanks for your comment!

  3. I made the strawberry cream cheese bars! I could not get them out of the pan. It was a hot day and it was a hot mess! Tasted pretty good, but not bars!!!

  4. Oh skinny jeans! My excuse right now for not wearing them is that I had a knee operation 5 weeks ago and they won’t fit. Truth be told, I haven’t tried them on and I’m going to ride this one out a little longer. 😉 For spring, I’m into culottes.

  5. Wow, do these bars ever look delicious!! 😀 These wont work for my skinny jeans either because they’ll have to contend with that whole batch!

  6. Skinny jeans? They’re totally overrated! (Well my jeans stopped talking to me, and I don’t mind). Let’s better have these luscious bars. Please ship me any (If you have any) leftovers! 🙂

  7. Oh my goodness! What is it about jeans with holes in them? It’s impossible to find jeans intact anymore! These little crumble bars look so amazingly delicious I think my skinny jeans would be complaining too 🙂

  8. LOL yes Sharon! 3 cups of strawberries, not blueberries, updated thank you! 1/3 cup of sugar in the cream cheese mixture, the cake mixture would have some and if you decide to add the glaze (in the notes) that uses powdered sugar. It is really wonderful though! Hope you try it!

  9. The posted recipe calls for blueberries and not strawberries. Is the amount need for strawberries still 3 cups and no extra sugar or abything? Looks really wonderful!! Thanks?

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