Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

Name: Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
Prep time: 4 h
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters fresh blueberries; 10 servings Butter, for greasing; 454 grams cream cheese, room temperature; 2 eggs; 9 graham crackers; 0 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 lemons, zested and juiced; 118 milliliters About sugar, eyeball it; 2 Tbsps sugar; 1 sticks unsalted butter, melted

This vegetarian recipe serves 10. One serving contains 359 calories, 5g of protein, and 26g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours. If you have lemon zest, graham crackers, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Watch how to make this recipe.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

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Oven

Grease the bottom of a 9 by 9-inch baking pan with butter. Then place parchment paper over the top, pressing down at the corners. In a food processor, process the sugar, cinnamon and graham crackers until you have the texture of bread crumbs.

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Graham Crackers

Breadcrumbs

Cinnamon

Butter

Sugar

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Baking Paper

Food Processor

Baking Pan

Add the melted butter and pulse a couple of times to fully incorporate.

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Butter

Pour into the lined baking pan and gently pat down with the base of a glass.

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Base

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Baking Pan

Bake in the oven for 12 minutes until golden. When done set aside to cool.

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Oven

Add cream cheese, eggs, lemon zest, lemon juice and sugar to the food processor and mix until well combined. It should have a smooth consistency.

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Cream Cheese

Lemon Juice

Lemon Zest

Sugar

Egg

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Food Processor

Pour onto the cooled base and then cover with blueberries. They will sink slightly but should still be half exposed -- as the cake bakes they will sink a little more and break down.

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Blueberries

Base

Bake in the oven for 35 minutes or until the center only slightly jiggles.

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Oven

Remove from the oven and cool completely before refrigerating for at least 3 hours. Once set, remove from pan using the parchment lining and slice into 10 rectangular bars. Dust with powdered sugar.

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Powdered Sugar