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Summertime means barbecues and delicious desserts! These Cream Cheese Lime Bars are perfect for any summer gathering you may be heading to in the next couple of weeks!
Cream Cheese Lime Bars Recipe
A delicoius and light summer dessert! Cream Cheese Lime Bars
Serving
Ingredients
Crust
- 15.25 ounces key lime cake mix
- 1 egg
- ½ cup butter, softened
Middle/Frosting layer
- 3 Tablespoons butter, softened
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar, more or less if needed
- 2 teaspoons lime juice
- 3 drops green food coloring
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 2 eggs
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- For crust layer, combine softened butter, eggs, and the cake mix.
- Stir until combined and press into a greased 9x13 glass pan. Set aside.
- For middle/frosting layer. beat together powdered sugar and butter.
- Add lime juice until consistency of thick frosting is reached, if needed add more powdered sugar.
- Mix in cream cheese, and food coloring.
- Set aside one cup of mixture for frosting.
- With remaining mixture, beat in two eggs until fluffy.
- Pour new mixture over the crust, and bake for 25-30 minutes or until center is done.
- Let bars cool for about 15 minutes before spreading the frosting mixture on top.
Nutrition
Calories: 302 kcal · Carbohydrates: 45 g · Protein: 4 g · Fat: 13 g · Saturated Fat: 8 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 63 mg · Sodium: 358 mg · Potassium: 71 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 33 g · Vitamin A: 390 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 93 mg · Iron: 1 mg
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Yum! Lime is one of my favorites for desserts! These look great!
As soon as I saw this I thought – heaven! I love cream cheese and I love lime. Perfect combination.
Thank you!