Merry Christmas Cheesecake Bars
From notyourmomma 15 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 18
Adapted from the old crescent cheese filled favorite from our past. cookies are cut in a 3 x 3 in the 8 inch pan and then on the diagonal. They are on the small side but quite delightful Warning, it takes some time to shell the pistachios.
Ingredients
- Crust: shopping list
- 1/3 cup cold butter shopping list
- 1/3 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- Filling: shopping list
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice shopping list
- 1/3 cup chopped pistachios shopping list
- 1/3 cup of chopped sweetened dried cranberries shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- For crust, in a 1-quart mixing bowl, cut butter in chunks, add brown sugar and flour and mix at low speed, then medium speed, scraping sides of bowl until well mixed and formed into crumbs (about 1 minute).
- Remove 1/2 cup of mixture and set aside; press remaining crumb mixture into 8-inch square pan.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
- For filling, beat cream cheese, sugar, egg and lemon juice at medium speed until fluffy (1 to 2 minutes).
- Stir in pistachios and chopped dried cranberries.
- Spread filling over slightly cooled crust and sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
- Continue baking 18 to 20 minutes or until filling is set and top is lightly browned.
- Cool. Store in refrigerator.
People Who Like This Dish 8
- foodplease Nowhere, Us
- hunnee Nanaimo, CA
- dollhead Mechanicville, US
- minitindel THE HEART OF THE WINE COUNTRY, CA
- jenniferbyrdez Kenner, LA
- krystynainsydney Bondi Junction, AU
- mkm114 Springdale, AR
- sparow64 Sweetwater, TN
- jeffsgirl Medford, OR
- marriage Apalachin
- Show up here?Review or Bookmark it! ✔
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
Mmmmmm love them....... yumo.......hey did you know you can buy the already shelled pistachios .. i got some 2 days ago at walmart in the snack isle lol
five
tink
minitindel
in THE HEART OF THE WINE COUNTRY loved it
-
Holy moly! You just can't get enough fives today can you, nym? Thanks and another ^5.
Lorraine
lacrenshaw
in Horsham loved it
-
oh yeah, baby...lovin this one!
sparow64
in Sweetwater loved it
The Groups
- Not added to any groups yet!
Reviews & Comments 5
-
All Comments
-
Your Comments
" It was excellent "
" It was excellent "
" It was excellent "