These cheesecake bars are everything you want in a sweet and simple-to-make bar recipe. A sweet and crunchy crust is topped with a creamy cheesecake layer dotted with miniature chocolate chips. Since they’re kept in the refrigerator, they’re on the ready when you feel like munching on a cool, sweet treat!
This recipe comes from a new book by my blogging friend Jocelyn Brubaker: Cheesecake Love- Inventive, Irresistible, and Super-Easy Cheesecake Desserts for Every Day. I’m absolutely crazy about cheesecake, so this book is perfect for me! The book includes a bunch of different ways to make cheesecake: full cheesecakes, bars, no-bake, small desserts, cheesecake in brownies and pies… yum, right? Here are a few recipes that stood out to me and are on my must-make-someday list: Vanilla Bean Cheesecake (because plain cheesecake is the best-ever dessert!!), Triple Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake, Caramel Pecan Cheesecake, Skinny Mini Cheesecakes (for when I have to have cheesecake… but I’m on a diet!), Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Cookie Bars, Peppermint Swirl Cheesecake Brownies, Coconut Key Lime Cheesecake Pie and Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins. This book is perfect for the cheesecake lover in your life. That’s me!
The recipe begins by using your big, awesome KitchenAid food processor to obliterate some Oreos into crumbs. If you do not have this particular food processor, you can certainly use another… but I adore my KitchenAid. It’s super powerful, and it takes just seconds to blast cookies into crumbs! Plus, it’s RED! So pretty. You can check out all of their food processors on the KitchenAid website.
And there are the crumbs! You’ll mix the cookie crumbs with some melted butter to make the crust for the cheesecake bars- then that goes into the oven for 10 minutes.
This is a rare sighting of me in my kitchen… mixing up the cheesecake batter. My hubby grabbed my camera and snuck in a photo!
Since I’m a giant, super-fan of cheesecake… I think it’s safe to say that I’m qualified to recommend these cheesecake bars. They were gone within days from our refrigerator- where I thought they might be safe (not!) These bars are perfect for a small gathering of friends or for everyday munching for your hungry family. I stuck a few of them in the freezer, and they appear to store well in there too with easy defrosting.
Here are a few more cheesecake bar recipes you might enjoy:
No-Bake S’Mores Cheesecake Bars by RecipeBoy Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Bars by Recipe Girl Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars by She Wears Many Hats Apple Cheesecake Bars by Crazy for Crust
