Cherry Cheesecake Bars (Simple to Make!)

These Cherry Cheesecake Bars are the right make-ahead dessert for any event! Creamy cheesecake sits atop a do-it-yourself graham cracker crust, and is completed off with a beneficiant serving to of cherries.

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Simple Cherry Cheesecake Bars

I like do-it-yourself cheesecake. However typically I don’t need to undergo the trouble of constructing a regular-sized cheesecake and worrying about water baths, cracking, and all these issues that come together with conventional cheesecake. These cherry cheesecake bars are tremendous easy to make and are at all times a crowd pleaser!

Step one on this recipe is to make the crust. You’ll want graham cracker crumbs, butter and sugar which get pressed into the underside of a sq. pan, then baked till crisp. Whereas the crust is baking, I put together the filling. Listed below are the elements you’ll want for each:

Ingredient Listing

The filling is a straightforward mixture of cream cheese, vanilla extract, eggs, sugar and heavy cream. Should you don’t have heavy cream available, bitter cream will even work. The cheesecake bars might want to chill for at the least 2 hours, so plan accordingly! You’ll be able to really put together the bars as much as 3 days earlier than you propose to serve them, then merely slice and prime with cherries proper earlier than serving.

Crust:

• Graham Cracker Crumbs: Kind the bottom of the crust.
• Sugar: Sweetens and helps bind the crumbs collectively as soon as baked.
• Salted Butter: Provides moisture, richness, and in addition retains the crust in place. Unsalted butter will even work if that’s all you could have available. You’ll be able to add a pinch of salt to the crust combination individually.

Cheesecake Filling/ Topping:

• Cream Cheese: The star ingredient! This creates the traditional wealthy and creamy cheesecake texture.
• Sugar: Sweetens up the filling.
• Bitter Cream: Provides a contact of tang and retains the filling moist.
• Heavy Cream: Enhances richness and in addition prevents cracks within the baked cheesecake.
• Eggs: Bind the elements and supply construction for an ideal slice!
• Vanilla Extract: Infuses the filling with a touch of candy, fragrant taste.
• Cherry Pie Filling: For the topping!

How one can Make Cherry Cheesecake Bars

I really assume the trickiest half about this cheesecake bar recipe is reducing the bars into neat squares! The bars are best to chop straight from the fridge and whenever you use a scorching knife. (See the guidelines under!) This recipe makes about 9 bigger squares or 12 smaller squares.

1. Preheat Oven, Put together Pan: Preheat the oven to 325 levels Fahrenheit. Line a 9×9-inch pan with parchment paper, leaving a 1 or 2-inch overhang on both aspect of the pan, and spray with pan spray.
2. Graham Cracker Combination: In a medium bowl, combine collectively the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter collectively till it resembles moist sand. 
3. Add to Pan: Firmly press the combination into the underside of the ready pan and bake for 10 minutes. Take away from the oven and let the crust cool when you put together the filling for the cherry cheesecake bars.

Cheesecake 

1. Beat Cream Cheese: Add the cream cheese to a big bowl and beat with a hand mixer or the paddle attachment of a stand mixer and beat till it’s easy and creamy. Scrape down the perimeters and backside of the bowl as wanted.
2. Combine In Remaining Components: Add the sugar, bitter cream, heavy cream, and vanilla and beat till mixed. Add the eggs one by one, beating properly after every addition. Pour the batter over the cooled crust.
3. Bake: Return the pan to the oven and bake for 28-Half-hour, or till the middle is ready. 
4. Chill: Take away the pan from the oven and permit it to chill to room temperature earlier than chilling within the fridge for at the least 2 hours.
5. Minimize: As soon as chilled, rigorously take away the cheesecake bars from the pan utilizing the parchment paper. Minimize into 9 or 12 squares, relying in your desire.
6. Add Topping: Spoon roughly 2 tablespoons of cherry pie filling over every cheesecake bar and serve.