Tart Cherry Cheesecake Crumb Bars Food

TART CHERRY CHEESECAKE CRUMB BARS

Steps:

• Line a 13×9 Baking Pan with parchment and/or baking spray. Set aside.
• In a medium saucepan (3-4 qt), place the cherries. Add in the sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch, almond extract and pinch of salt.
• Heat over Medium temperature, stirring regularly, until mixture first boils, and then thickens. On my gas stove, this took just a few (less than 5) minutes. It would take a bit longer over an electric burner. Once thickened and glossy, remove from heat to a bowl to cool a bit while you make the other layers.
• In a Medium bowl, whisk the room temperature cream cheese, sugar and egg until smooth. Set aside.
• Whisk together the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt in a mixing bowl. Using your fingers, work the butter cubes into the dry ingredients until a crumbly dough is formed, much like the dough of a pie crust before adding the water. Butter pieces should be irregularly sized.
• Add the egg and mix until incorporated.
• Press half of the crumb mixture firmly into the bottom of lined/sprayed baking pan.
• Using an offset spatula or a knife, evenly spread the cream cheese mixture over the layer of crumb mixture, leaving about 1/2″ around the edges.
• Evenly spread the cooled cherry filling over the cream cheese mixture.
• Using your hands, mix the sliced almonds into the remaining half of the crumb mixture. Then scatter small pieces of the crumb mixture over the cherry layer, until all the crumb mixture is used. The cherry layer should be completely covered (or almost completely) with crumb mixture
• Bake in preheated oven 35-45 minutes, until top is golden brown. Mine took 42 minutes.
• Cool completely before cutting into bars.

CHERRY CRUMB BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 13x9-inch pan.
• Combine cake mix, 6 tablespoons butter and 1 cup rolled oats. Reserve 1 cup of this for crumb topping.
• To remaining mixture, add egg; mix well.
• Press into pan. Pour cherry filling over crust; spread to cover.
• In large bowl add remaining 1 cup crumb mixture, 1/4 cup oats, 2 tablespoons butter, nuts, and brown sugar. Mix well. Sprinkle over cherries. Bake 30-40 minutes.

EASY CHERRY CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat bottom and sides of a 9x13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
• Pour cookie mix into a large bowl. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly and coarse. Reserve 1 1/2 cups crumb mixture; press remaining crumbs into the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven for 8 minutes. Remove partially baked crust and leave oven on.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg, flour, and vanilla extract together in a bowl using electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
• Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over the partially baked crust. Spread cherry pie filling over cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle reserved crumbs on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until light golden brown on top, about 35 minutes. Cool about 30 minutes. Refrigerate to chill, about 2 hours. Cut into 16 to 20 bars.

CHERRY CHEESECAKE TARTS

Steps:

• Bake pastry shells according to package directions. , In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and extract. With a fork, carefully remove the circular top of each baked shell and set aside. Remove any soft layers of pastry inside shells and discard. , Spoon the cream cheese filling into shells; place on a baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 5 minutes. Cool for 1 hour. Refrigerate until serving., Just before serving, spoon pie filling into shells. Top with reserved pastry circles. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate leftovers.

UPSIDE DOWN CHERRY CRUMB CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and lightly spray a 10" springform pan with cooking spray.
• Crush the sliced almonds with your hands, until they are crumbs (they don't need to be extremely fine).
• Mix the almonds, flour, and 1/2 cup sugar then add the butter and egg yolks to form crumbs (note you do not want this to form a ball, it should be nice small crumbs).
• Press 1/2 to 2/3 of the crumbs into the base of a springform pan then spread evenly with the cherry pie filling.
• Beat the eggs, egg whites, 2/3 cup sugar, cream cheese and sour cream until smooth then pour evenly over the cherries.
• Make sure the remaining crumb mixture is very finely crumbled then sprinkle it lightly and evenly over the top of the cream cheese mixture.
• Bake for 50 minutes then remove from oven and cool completely before serving.
• Note: The cheesecake portion takes awhile to firm up and is better the second day.