Cream Cheese Rhubarb Bars

Submitted by ScrappieDoo

"These bars combines the velvety richness of cheesecake with fresh tangy rhubarb for a delicious dessert that everyone will love."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 16 bars

ingredients

• 177.44 ml butter, softened
• 473.18 ml flour
• 177.44 ml quick oats
• 177.44 ml brown sugar
• 340.19 g cream cheese (1 1/2 packages)
• 295.73 ml white sugar
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 2.46 ml cinnamon (or more to taste!)
• 1.23 ml nutmeg
• 709.77 ml rhubarb, chopped

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine butter, flour, oats and brown sugar until crumbly.
3. Press 1/2 the mixture into bottom of 9x13 baking pan.
4. Beat cream cheese, white sugar, eggs, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large mixing bowl. Stir in rhubarb.
5. Pour over prepared crust.
6. Sprinkle with remaining reserved topping.
7. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Cool and refrigerate.
8. Serve cool.

Reviews

[Bonnie Young]

Excellent bars! I did bake the crust for about 8 min before adding filling. I do feel that the ingredients listed could be put in a better order as they were kind of confusing. I used 2/3 of the crust mix on the bottom and 1/3 sprinkled on the top and topped with a few chopped walnuts. The flavor is wonderful. Thanks so much for posting!

 

[karen in tbay]

We had some cream cheese to use up and loads of rhubarb so was looking for a whole lot of different ideas and we enjoyed these

 

[mayconnie]

This is a wonderful recipe although much too sweet for my liking. So I reduced the white sugar, and found it to be good. I also made this recipe at least 4 times, and have substituted the rhubarb with sour apples and added cinnamon and nutmeg, and have used sour cherries and added vanilla to the cream cheese. I also found that it needed a little more baking that was called for in the recipe. Great basic recipe to play with.

 

[HotPepperRosemaryJe]

These were pretty darn good... although next time I will use more rhubarb. Had to add some flour because my rhubarb was very juicy! Very nice flavor. Not too sweet and just enough tartness! Will try again, as we love rhubarb in this house!

 

[rdzins]

WOW, this was super good, my non rhubarb eating husband ate it, and even my picky 7 year old. I will make this again!