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These Berry Oatmeal Cheesecake Cookie Barsare a delicious, healthy dessert to help you make it through this fall! They’re chewy, sweet and irresistable.
Berry Oatmeal Cheesecake Cookie Bars
Can you believe it’s August already? The year is just flying by!
Truthfully I’m a little torn about moving so rapidly towards fall. I don’t have kids yet, so back to school doesn’t effect me too much – there’s just more traffic going to work in the mornings.
It’s more that I don’t want to see the warm weather go. Walking Jessie (our black lab) in super cold weather is the worst. Worse that sweating while walking her.
Plus, I’ve been digging cold treats recently. And those are perfect in warm weather. But I can carry those into winter, right? I mean, ice cream is totally a year round thing.
And I love all the fresh fruit right now! Even though you can get fruit year round, it’s all on sale right now. So I’m trying to squeeze fruit into as many treats as I can. They’ll be out of season soon and I’ll miss them.
These Strawberry and Blueberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Cookie Bars feature two of my favorite fruits – strawberries and blueberries. When I made these strawberry and blueberry oatmeal cookies towards the beginning of the summer, the hubs declared them to be the best cookie ever. I love that he loves them so much, but now that’s the only thing he wants me to make.
Since I know you all don’t want the same recipe repeated week after week on the blog, I decided to make him the cookies – but with a twist!
Instead of white chocolate chips, I made them with white chocolate cheesecake. And in bar form!
Bingo! These might be even better than the cookies. Same great taste, but with cheesecake.
The cheesecake is the perfect addition. A great contrast in texture to the cookie around it. Heaven for the cinnamon, oatmeal, fruit and cheesecake lover!
And the oatmeal cookie base and topping is so soft and cinnamon filled, it totally melds together with the cheesecake and all comes together perfectly for a party in your mouth.
And because these bars are full of oatmeal and fruit, they’re perfect for breakfast. 😉
I like these even better than the cookies. The hubs wasn’t sold though. He’s still a cookie guy.
Oh well, more for the rest of us! I guess I’ll be making the cookies again. 🙂
Recipe
Berry Oatmeal Cheesecake Cookie Bars
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- Author: Lindsay
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 32 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 17 minutes
- Yield: 16 Square Bars
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Berry Oatmeal Cheesecake Cookie Barsare a delicious, healthy dessert to help you make it through this fall! They’re chewy, sweet and irresistable.
Ingredients
COOKIE BASE
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 3/4 cup flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 1/2 cups Old Fashioned Oats
CHEESECAKE FILLING
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
FRUIT FOR TOPPING
- 3/4 cup strawberries, hulled and chopped
- 3/4 cup blueberries
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes.
3. Mix in egg and vanilla extract.
4. Add cinnamon, flour, cornstarch and baking soda to a medium sized bowl and combine.
5. With the mixer on low speed, add flour mixture to butter and sugar mixture.
6. Stir in old fashioned oats. Dough will be thick.
7. Line a 9×9 square pan with parchment paper.
8. Spread just over half of the cookie dough into the bottom of the pan.
9. To make the cheesecake filling, beat the cream cheese, sugar and egg together until combined.
10. Melt white chocolate and add to cream cheese mixture. Mix well.
11. Spread cheesecake mixture evenly over oatmeal cookie base.
12. Sprinkle fruit evenly and crumble the remaining cookie dough on top of the cheesecake.
13. Bake for 32-34 minutes. Edges should be lightly browned, center may still be a bit jiggly but will firm as it cools.
14. Allow to cool completely before slicing. Store in covered container in refrigerator.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories: 348
- Sugar: 22.4 g
- Sodium: 143.1 mg
- Fat: 16.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 42.9 g
- Protein: 5.3 g
- Cholesterol: 62.1 mg
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- Bars and Brownies
- Cheesecakes
- Cookies
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Enjoy!
More fresh fruit baking ideas
The inspiration for these bars – Strawberry, Blueberry and White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
One Ingredient Strawberry Ice Cream
Thick and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Cake with Cinnamon Maple Icing
Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes
Lemon Icebox Pie
