A very nice Blueberry Cream Cheese Bar that combines cream cheese taste with blueberries and a crumble topping. Easy to follow step by step photo instructions. Give it a try today.
Every year I try to do at least one blueberry recipe, but I'm a little late this year since blueberry season is over.
My wife will leave hints about things on her Pinterest page and this time; it was a wonderful looking recipe from Grandbaby Cakes for Blueberry Crumble Bars. It looked great but I like cream cheese with my blueberries plus I can't keep my hands off things. I combined it with two other recipes and have a very special treat for you.
My Rating
A very nice higher 4. But a 5 rating is ok also.
Notes: I usually like to rave about how fast and easy a recipe is but not quite this time. It wasn't bad, but there are four pans and the mixer. It all takes a little time.
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Preheat oven to 375 conventional, not convection.
Start by coating a nine by nine glass baking dish with butter. Dice 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter. Mix 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, one egg and the butter.
Cut the butter into the mixture with either a pastry cutter or fork until crumbly.
Press half of the crumble mixture into the buttered dish. Bake to firm up some for 8 minutes.
While the base is baking, clean and dry 1 pint of blueberries. Fresh preferred but frozen should be fine. Add two teaspoon cornstarch and 1/2 cup sugar. Mix well.
Combine 8 oz of cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and one egg. Beat with mixer until smooth.
When the crust is done, top with cream cheese mixture, then the blueberries and lastly with the rest of the crumble.
Bake until nicely browned. About 40 minutes.
Cool in a refrigerator for at least 2 hours before cutting.
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Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars
Ingredients
Base and topping
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 stick butter diced
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Blueberry Mixture
- 1 pint blueberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon corn starch
Cream Cheese Mixture
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 conventional, not convection.
- Start by coating a nine by nine glass baking dish with butter. Dice 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter.
- Mix two cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, one egg and the butter. Cut the butter into the mixture with either a pastry cutter or fork until crumbly.
- Press half of the crumble mixture into the buttered dish. Bake to firm up some for 8 minutes.
- While the base is baking, clean and dry one pint of blueberries. Fresh preferred but frozen should be fine. Add two teaspoon cornstarch and 1/2 cup sugar. Mix well.
- Combine 8 oz of cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and one egg. Beat with mixer until smooth.
- When the crust is done, top with cream cheese mixture, then the blueberries and lastly with the rest of the crumble.
- Bake until nicely browned. About 40 minutes.
- Cool in a refrigerator for at least 2 hours and longer if possible before cutting.
ADJUST THE RECIPE SIZE:
You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.Nutrition
Nutrition is generally for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
Becky
Great recipe! Combines two favorites - blueberry crumb bars and blueberry cream cheese bars. I beat the egg with a bit of vanilla before adding it to the crust and a bit in the cream cheese. Also use half brown sugar in crust and add a dash of cinnamon. Delicious!
DrDan
I love crumble toppings. While this recipe was a bit more work than normal for me, it is well worth it. Also, I'm a lot faster doing it when I don't take pictures.
Thanks so the note.
Dan
Leslie
I made these with a few modifications, added 1/4 tsp of almond flavoring to the base/topping mixture & mixed approx 1/3 cup of blanched chopped almonds with the topping part of mixture. Also, added 1 tsp of lemon zest and 1 tsp of lemon juice with blue berry mixture and 1 tsp of vanilla flavoring with the cream cheese mixture.
Good luck with your changes at work, hope to see some old favorite recipes and new ones soon. Thanks again for all your recipes