Healthier Cream Cheese Bars Recipe 455

Steps:

• Make Crust: Cream butter and honey, Add flour and walnuts and mix until it forms crumbs. Set aside 1 cup for the topping. Press the remaining crumbs into a greased 8 inch pan. Bake at 350º 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned. Filling: Combine honey and cream cheese, beat until smooth. Add lemon juice and vanilla and beat until thoroughly mixed. Spread evenly over baked and slightly cooled crust. Sprinkle reserved crumbs on top and bake 15 minutes more. Let cool. Can serve with fresh fruit on top or a blueberry or strawberry sauce made from fresh, mashed berries and a little agave or honey to sweeten them just a little.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 15 x 10 inch sheet pan.
• Mix together cake mix, butter or margarine, and 1 egg. Press mixture into pan.
• In a small bowl, mix together cream cheese, 2 eggs, and confectioners' sugar. Pour mixture on top of cake mixture.
• Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool, and cut into squares.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• Beat the margarine, cream cheese, and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the margarine mixture before adding the next. Beat in the vanilla with the last egg. Mix in the flour, salt, chocolate chips, and walnuts until just incorporated. Fold in the maraschino cherries; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out nearly clean, about 25 minutes. Watch closely - the finished bars will be very pale in color. Remove from oven immediately if the sides begin to pull away from the pan. Cool pan on a wire rack before cutting into bars.