Cooking - Desserts

Lemon Cheesecake Bars


Ingredients

  • l box yellow cake mix (2 layer)
  • 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • l tablespoon of fresh or bottled lemon juice
  • l/3 cup vegetable oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Mix cake mix, l of the eggs and the oil until crumbly.
  3. Reserve l cup of this mixture for later.
  4. Pat the remaining mixture lightly into a 9 by 13 ungreased baking pan.
  5. Bake l5 minutes.
  6. While this is baking, beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and the remaining egg until light and smooth. Spread over baked crumb mixture.
  7. Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture on top.
  8. Bake for l5 additional minutes until light golden brown. Be careful not to overbake.
  9. Chill thoroughly and cut into bars.

Recipe submitted by Debra