Apple Butter Cream Cheese Oat Bars Recipes

OATMEAL AND APPLE BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 9-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• In large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon.
• Add butter and beat with electric mixer on low until mixture is crumbly.
• Pat half of the mixture, about 2 cups into baking pan.
• Spread apple butter evenly over crumb layer.
• Sprinkle remaining crumbs over apple butter and press down gently.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden.
• Transfer pan to wire rack and cool completely.
• Cut into 16 bars.

APPLE BUTTER OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl; add oats and sugar. Stir in margarine until well incorporated. Press half the oat mixture into the prepared baking pan. Spread apple butter over oat mixture layer. Sprinkle remaining oat mixture over apple butter layer. Press top layer gently with a spoon.
• Bake in the preheated oven until oat mixture is crisp and lightly browned, about 55 minutes.

APPLE OAT CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13 pan.
• Combind topping and crust ingredients.
• Press all but one cup of mixture into pan.
• Bake 12 to 15 minutes until crust is set (it will not be brown) and cool.
• With a mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar together in a bowl until smooth (note: if your cream cheese just came out of the refrigerator, you can microwave it on the defrost setting for a couple of minutes so that it's a little less difficult to beat with the mixer) Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over crust.
• Combind apple mixture ingredients in a bowl.
• Top cream cheese mixture evenly with apple mixture.
• Sprinkle reserved oat mixture evenly over top.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Cut into bars.

CREAM CHEESE APPLE OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Combine oats, flour, brown sugar, and 1/4 cup of granulated sugar and mix well. Add Crisco and cut in until it's crumbly. Set aside 1 cup of this mixture and press remainder into a sprayed 9x13 pan.
• Bake for 12 minutes, cool slightly.
• In a mixer bowl, combine cream cheese, eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar, and vanilla. Mix til smooth and spread evenly over oat crust.
• Combine apple, raisins (if desired) and almond extract. Stir.
• Add spices and 2 T. of sugar and sprinkle over cheese mixture.
• Return to oven and bake an additional 25 minutes or til golden. Cool completely and cut into bars.