Easy Lemon Cream Cheese Bars
These delicious Lemon Cream Cheese Bars combine the sweet cream cheese lemon layer sandwiched in between crescent dough. Very much like a danish, this easy recipe is light and tangy and sweet.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 containers of refrigerated Crescent Roll Dough (8 ounces)
- 2 packages of Cream Cheese (8 ounces)
- 2 Lemons, Zested and juiced (I used more lemon zest because I like it)
- 1/2 Cup White Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
- 3 Additional Tablespoons White Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*
- Line the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
- Take one container of crescent roll dough and press into pan (try to keep it as one whole piece-rectangle)
- Mix cream cheese, sugar, zest, and juice together until smooth and creamy.
- Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over the bottom layer of crescent roll.
- Unroll the second container of crescent roll dough and carefully stretch over the lemon cream cheese layer.
- Brush melted butter on top of crescent dough top.
- Mix remaining sugar (3 tablespoons) and additional lemon zest together and sprinkle on top of the butter.
- Bake for approximately 30 minutes, until the top is golden brown and the sugar/butter mixture is crackly.
- Allow to cool for at least 20 minutes. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to cut into bars.
- When cool, use the parchment paper to lift the bars out the pan, and transfer to cutting board.
- Cut into squares and serve.