Here’s a classic homemade recipe:
🍒 Cherry Cream Cheese Bars
📝 Ingredients
Crust & Topping:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Cream Cheese Layer:
- 8 oz (1 block) cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping:
- 1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
Grease or line a 9×13-inch baking dish with parchment paper.
2️⃣ Make the crust:
Mix butter, flour, sugar, and salt until crumbly.
Press about 2/3 of the mixture firmly into the bottom of the pan.
3️⃣ Make the cream cheese layer:
Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
Add egg and vanilla; mix until creamy.
Spread evenly over the crust.
4️⃣ Add cherry filling:
Spoon cherry pie filling evenly over the cream cheese layer.
5️⃣ Add crumb topping:
Sprinkle remaining dough mixture over the cherries.
6️⃣ Bake for 40–45 minutes, until golden on top.
7️⃣ Cool completely, then refrigerate at least 2 hours before cutting into squares.
✨ Tips
- Chill before slicing for clean layers.
- Dust with powdered sugar if desired.
- You can substitute blueberry or strawberry pie filling.
If you’d like, I can also give you a from-scratch cherry filling version (no canned pie filling).
