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Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars on a brown paper
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Crumble Bars

Strawberries and cream cheese make these crumble bars burst with flavor in your mouth! Highly addictive!
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: bars, cream cheese, crumble, fruit, strawberry
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange

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.