Delicious strawberry-filled bars recipe – a delightful dessert with cream cheese, sugar and margarita mix!
Strawberry-Filled Lemon Cream Cheese Bars
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 2 hr 15 min
- Ingredients 10
- Servings 32
Ingredients
Base
- 1 box lemon or yellow cake mix
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 1/2 cup finely chopped almonds
- 1 cup strawberry preserves or jelly
Filling
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup frozen concentrated margarita mix, thawed
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease 13x9-inch pan. Place cake mix in large bowl. With pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until crumbly. Add almonds; mix well. Reserve 1 cup mixture for topping. Press remaining mixture in bottom of pan. Stir preserves until smooth; carefully spread over base.
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Step2In same bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, flour, salt and egg with electric mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add margarita mix; beat at low speed until blended. Carefully pour filling over base. Sprinkle reserved base mixture over filling.
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Step3Bake 34 to 41 minutes or until edges begin to brown and center is set. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Cut into bars. Store covered in refrigerator.
Nutrition
160
Calories
7g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
23g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 160
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 3 1/2g
- 18%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 160mg
- 7%
- Potassium
- 40mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 23g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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