Cheesecake bar recipe:
Dough: 300 g hard flour
2 egg yolks
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon sour cream
100 g sugar
200 g butter
Lemon zest (organic lemon)
Filling: 4 egg whites
200 g sugar
500 g fresh cheese/cottage cheese
Bourbon vanilla
Lemon zest (organic lemon)
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Resting time (dough): 30 minutes
Baking time: 30 minutes / 180 °C
Cheesecake bar recipe:
Dough: 10.6 oz hard flour
2 egg yolks
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon sour cream
3.5 oz sugar
7 oz butter
Lemon zest (organic lemon)
Filling: 4 egg whites
7 oz sugar
17.6 oz fresh cheese/cottage cheese
Bourbon vanilla
Lemon zest (organic lemon)
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Resting time (dough): 30 minutes
Baking time: 30 minutes / 350 °F
Hello my sweet little Christmas cookies! Today we are revealing our juicy little secret, with this cheesecake bar recipe! The perfect cheesecake bars need to be compact, jet juicy and fresh, therefore perfect for the cold winter days. With family wilderness just around the corner, you need to have something to calm you down! Be your best Santa baby!
How to make cheesecake bars?
This cheesecake bar recipe is relatively easy, the most important thing to have in mind is to rest the dough and prepare a shiny and airy filling, but how do we do it?
1. Make the dough (it takes the most time and needs to rest)! Take a large bowl and mix together the flour, sugar and baking soda. Cut the butter in little pieces and add to the bowl. This way it will be easier to work the butter equally into the dough. Add the egg yolks and sour cream and finish everything off with a good pinch of lemon zest!
2. Mix everything together (when in need of cardio) manually, or with the machine (dear fancy-pants)! Cover it and move to the fridge for 30 minutes!
3. In the meantime make the filling! Take out your mixer and medium sized bowl! Mix together the egg whites and sugar, until they get a shiny, creamy and airy texture (takes usually about 5 minutes of mixing)! Then carefully incorporate the cheese with a baking spatula! Always try to keep the fluffiness of the mixture intact! Finish the filling with a pinch of bourbon vanilla and lemon zest (to your liking)!
4. Take out the dough from the fridge! Divide the dough in two identical pieces (one will be the bottom, the other the top of the bar). Thin out the dough pieces to about half centimeter! Butter and flour your baking tray and add the thinned bottom dough.
5. Add the filling on top of the dough. Distribute it evenly with the spatula!
6. Now we add the little kitchen tricks (of the real chefs). Roll up the second dough and put it on the filling (end of dough facing end of baking tray). Now unwrap it carefully and voila, no cracks, just cheesecake bar recipe perfection!
7. With a fork make a few holes on top of the dough (so the air can go out while baking).
8. Bake 30 minutes on medium heat (180 °C/350 °F).
9. When it cools down cut into little bars and serve. Yummy moment guaranteed (enjoy it for yourself or keep for the family)!
Quick cooking instructions!
- Make the dough! In a large bowl mix the flour, baking soda, sugar, butter, sour cream, egg yolks and lemon zest. Cover up and leave in fridge for 30 minutes!
- Make the filling! Mix together the egg whites and sugar. Add the cheese, bourbon vanilla and lemon zest. Make a shiny, airy and fluffy filling!
- Take out the dough and divide in two pieces. Thin out first and put on bottom of prepared baking tray.
- Add the filling and cover with the second dough.
- Bake for 30 minutes on medium heat (180 °C/350 °F).
- Let to cool down and cut into small bars.
This is our second recipe of the series of secret Christmas cookie recipes around the world! Now you learned how to make cheesecake bars, congratulations! You can share it or keep it secret for centuries! The decision is yours to make, will you be the green bitter Grinch or Santa’s Little Helper? Ho, Ho, Ho!?
