Cream Cheese Lemon Bars (!)

I must preface this with one fact: (which I hope doesn't offend

anyone who may make or like them this way)

I have a really difficult time with lemon bars that have

the texture of gel... you know what I mean?

Some lemon bars are more cakey-creamy, and some

are more gel-ly.  I like the first kind.

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I have never, ever made lemon bars.

These were super-easy, quite fast and they are heaven!

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Cream Cheese Lemon Bars

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INGREDIENTS:

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1 box lemon cake mix

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1/3 c. margarine or butter, softened

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1 egg

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8 oz. cream cheese

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1 c. powdered sugar

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1/2 lemon's peel, grated *if desired (I didn't do this part)

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2 T. lemon juice or 1/2-1 fresh-squeezed lemon juice

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2 eggs

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1 t. vanilla

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DIRECTIONS

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1. In bowl, blend cake mix, butter and 1 egg.

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2. Press into a 9x13 cake pan, ungreased.

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3. Beat cream cheese until smooth, then blend in the

powdered sugar.

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4. Mix in lemon juice and lemon peel (*if using peel).

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5. Reserve 1/2 c. of this mixture and refrigerate for later use.

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6. Beat the remaining 2 eggs and vanilla into the remaining

cream cheese mixture til blended.

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7. Spread the mixture over the cake mixture.

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8. Bake @ 350 til set (about 25 mins.)

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9. Cool completely.

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10. Spread reserved cream cheese mix onto bars.

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11. Refrigerate til firm; cut and serve!

(I also sprinkled some powdered sugar over top!

Or you could sprinkle some lemon zest too...)

-recipe from RecipeTips.com via Pinterest