If you are looking for a sweet treat this holiday season, then these lemon cranberry cheesecake bars are a must-try! The combination of an easy homemade graham cracker crust with a creamy lemon-flavored cheesecake with sweet fresh mashed cranberries swirled in, these will be a show stopper at any holiday event. Your whole family will love them! These go perfectly on the dessert table of a Thanksgiving feast. Or bring these lemon cranberry cheesecake bars to a Christmas party to share! These are an easy Thanksgiving non-pie dessert, a special holiday season dessert or a prize-winning Christmas dessert. No more searching for a non-traditional holiday season dessert when you can make these!
Lemon Cranberry Cheesecake Bars
Servings: 12 bars
Prep: 30 minutes| Cook Time: 45 minutes | Total Time: 75 minutes
Cranberry Ingredients:
8 oz fresh cranberries
1 cup sugar
¾ cup water
Cheesecake Ingredients:
2 8 oz bricks cream cheese, softened
⅔ cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup plain greek yogurt
1 tsp vanilla
2 lemons juiced and zested.
Crust Ingredients:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
4 TBS melted butter
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 10×7 baking pan with foil and set aside.
- Melt butter in the microwave and pour over graham cracker crumbs, mixing until graham crackers are coated.
Pour graham cracker mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown.
- While the crust is baking prepare the cranberry mixture, in a small pot add cranberries, water and sugar.
- Bring cranberries to a boil, and cook for 10-15 minutes until cranberries have popped.
- Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
- In an electric mixer bowl, whip cream cheese until smooth.
- Add egg, yogurt, vanilla, and lemon, mixing until well incorporated.
- Pour cream cheese mixture over the crust and smooth out.
- Add spoonfuls of cranberry mixture on top of the cream cheese layer.
- Using a butter knife, swirl the cranberry mixture on the top of your cheesecake.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes or until the middle no longer jiggles.
- Cool for at least 2 hours before putting in the fridge to cool for another hour.
Lemon Cranberry Cheesecake Bars
The best lemon cranberry cheesecake bars – perfect for Christmas! You’ll love the homemade graham cracker crust. The cheesecake uses Greek yogurt and cream cheese with a hint of lemon. The sweet cranberries swirled into the cheesecake make the perfect addition of fruitful flavor!
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 45 min
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 min
- Yield: 12 bars 1x
- Category: dessert
Ingredients
Cranberry Ingredients:
8 oz fresh cranberries
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
Cheesecake Ingredients:
2 8 oz bricks cream cheese, softened
2/3 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
1 tsp vanilla
2 lemons juiced and zested.
Crust Ingredients:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
4 TBS melted butter
Instructions
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 10×7 baking pan with foil and set aside.
- Melt butter in the microwave and pour over graham cracker crumbs, mixing until graham crackers are coated.
- Pour graham cracker mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown.
- While the crust is baking prepare the cranberry mixture, in a small pot add cranberries, water and sugar.
- Bring cranberries to a boil, and cook for 10-15 minutes until cranberries have popped.
- Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
- In an electric mixer bowl, whip cream cheese until smooth.
- Add egg, yogurt, vanilla, and lemon, mixing until well incorporated.
- Pour cream cheese mixture over the crust and smooth out.
- Add spoonfuls of cranberry mixture on top of the cream cheese layer.
- Using a butter knife, swirl the cranberry mixture on the top of your cheesecake.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes or until the middle no longer jiggles.
- Cool for at least 2 hours before putting in the fridge to cool for another hour.
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