Calling all snickerdoodle lovers! Your family is going to beg you to make these Snickerdoodle-Apple Cream Cheese Bars again and again—and lucky for you, they're a breeze to make! These cookie bars are baked with cinnamon-swirled Pillsbury™ sugar cookie dough, a sweetened cream cheese mixture and fresh apples. Inspired by fall, snickerdoodle cheesecake bars are a combination of apple pie, cheesecake, and snickerdoodle cookies in one dessert, what could be better?
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Snickerdoodle-Apple Cream Cheese Bars
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 3 hr 45 min
- Ingredients 9
- Servings 16
Ingredients
Cinnamon-Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Bars
- 2 cups peeled, cored, coarsely chopped apples (2 medium)
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line 8-inch square pan with foil, allowing some to hang over edges of pan.
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Step2In small bowl, mix 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon until well blended. Set aside.
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Step3In 10-inch nonstick skillet, cook apples, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon over medium-high heat 4 to 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until apples are crisp-tender. Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes.
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Step4Meanwhile, in medium bowl, break up cookie dough. Add remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon; mix with spoon, or knead with hands until well blended. Reserve 1/2 cup of the cookie dough. Press remaining dough in pan.
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Step5In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, the flour and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Pour evenly over cookie dough.
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Step6Spoon cooled apple mixture evenly over cream cheese mixture. Crumble and sprinkle reserved 1/2 cup dough over apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
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Step7Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until deep golden brown and firm to the touch. Cool on cooling rack 30 minutes. Refrigerate at least 2 hours until well chilled. Using foil to lift, remove bars from pan, and peel foil away. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.
Nutrition
220
Calories
10g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
29g
Total Carbohydrate
20g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 220
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 10g
- 16%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 25%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 10%
- Sodium
- 140mg
- 6%
- Potassium
- 40mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 29g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 20g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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