Easiest Way to Make Delicious Lemon Cream Cheese Cookie Bars

Lemon Cream Cheese Cookie Bars. Chewy lemon cookie bars with a citrus cream cheese filling and cookie crumble top. These creamy, lemony bars with a sugar cookie crust are easy to make and totally delicious! Lemon cream cheese bars are a variation of the traditional lemon bars, made with crescent roll dough and a lemony cream cheese filling.

The cool, citrus-y cream cheese filling and the buttery, sweet crescent roll dough is an amazing combination! Share these with your favorite lemon lover! I'm on a hunt…for lemony dessert recipes. You can cook Lemon Cream Cheese Cookie Bars using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lemon Cream Cheese Cookie Bars

1. Prepare 1 box of lemon cake mix (any will do!).
2. You need 1/3 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
4. Prepare 2 of eggs ( one for crumble mixture,one for cream cheese mix.).
5. Prepare 1 tsp of lemon peel.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of lemon juice.
7. Prepare 1 pkg (8 oz) of softened room temp cream cheese.

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Lemon Cream Cheese Cookie Bars step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
2. Mix box of cake mix,1 egg and the cup of oil. Blend until crumbly, there will be many soft clumps and that's great!.
3. Save one cup of the mix as this will be used for the crumb topping..
4. Pat remaining mixture into a 13 x 9 in. baking pan and bake for 12 minutes.In separate bowl, beat together softened cream cheese, 1 egg, sugar, lemon peel, and lemon juice..
5. Beat until smooth and fluffy..
6. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over baked crumble mixture.
7. Sprinkle reserved crumble mixture over the top of cream cheese layer.Bake 15 minutes longer or until crumb topping is just beginning to brown..
8. Allow to cool completely, cut into bars, enjoy..

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